| 77 Famous Quotes by George Eliot
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“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”
Despair Quotes |
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“What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?”
Disasters Quotes |
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“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
Embarrassments` Quotes |
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“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”
Feelings Quotes |
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“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
Heartbreak Quotes |
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“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
Heartbreak Quotes |
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“Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
Hell Quotes |
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“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
Humor Quotes |
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“Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.”
Infatuation Quotes |
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“There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.”
Injury Quotes |
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“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
Intimacy Quotes |
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“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
Jealousy Quotes |
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“A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
Jokes Quotes |
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“The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.”
Language Quotes |
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“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
Lonliness Quotes |
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“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
Love lost Quotes |
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“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”
Luxury Quotes |
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“It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.”
Misery Quotes |
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“Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.”
Motives Quotes |
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“A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.”
Needs Quotes |
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“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”
Nothing Quotes |
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“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.”
Opposition Quotes |
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“But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.”
Opposition Quotes |
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“Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.”
Pain Quotes |
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“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.”
Persecution Quotes |
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