George Eliot

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. ↗

— George Eliot

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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. ↗

— George Eliot

#common #dissimilar #each #feeling #girl

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. ↗

— George Eliot

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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ↗

— George Eliot

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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ↗

— George Eliot

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. ↗

— George Eliot

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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. ↗

— George Eliot

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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ↗

— George Eliot

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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. ↗

— George Eliot

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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. ↗

— George Eliot

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