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“Where to look if you've lost your mind?”
― Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

tags: crazy, insanity, mind, sanity

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“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: anguish, despair, fulfillment, hope

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“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”
― George Eliot

tags: self

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#4

“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: pain-memories-compassion

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#5

“No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

tags: love, pain

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“Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: character, libel, neighbor, people, prejudice, reputation, rumor, slander, truth

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#8

“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
― George Eliot

tags: love

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#9

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: integrity

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#10

“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

tags: future, past

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#11

“Those who trust us educate us.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

tags: confidence, education, trust

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#12

“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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#13

“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner

tags: insult

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#14

“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: humor, society

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#15

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational

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#16

“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

tags: love

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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence

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#18

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Maria Craik

tags: misattributed

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#19

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: narrow-mind, open-mindedness, perspective

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#20

“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

tags: couples, death, fellowship, love, marriage, memory, relationship, sadness, sorrow

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#21

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

tags: damnation, doom, evil, sin, soul, temptation, unrepentance

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#22

“Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.”
― George Eliot

tags: right

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#23

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: distrust, loneliness

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#24

“I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

tags: actions, words

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#25

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”
― George Eliot

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#26

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

tags: integrity

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“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

tags: ignorance, knowledge, wisdom

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“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: pain, pride

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#29

“The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.”
― George Eliot

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#30

“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.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

tags: truth

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