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Letter "G" » George Eliot Quotes
«Adventure is not outside man; it is within.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«[I]t 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.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«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 kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web . . .»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . .»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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