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1 " I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. "
― George Eliot
2 " What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? "
― George Eliot , Adam Bede
3 " Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me. "
4 " Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. "
5 " Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. "
6 " But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. "
― George Eliot , Middlemarch
7 " Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. "
― George Eliot , The Mill on the Floss
8 " It is never too late to be what you might have been. "
9 " What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? "
10 " The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world. "
11 " It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. "
12 " People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. "
13 " Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. "
14 " She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception. "
15 " Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. "
16 " What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness. "
17 " Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. "
18 " I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. "
19 " If a princess in the days of enchantment had seen a four-footed creature from among those which live in herds come to her once and again with a human gaze which rested upon her with choice and beseeching, what would she think of in her journeying, what would she look for when the herds passed her? Surely for the gaze which had found her, and which she would know again. "
20 " Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope. "
― George Eliot , Daniel Deronda
