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George Eliot
November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880
Nationality: British
Category: Author
Subcategory: British Author

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

   

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

   

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

   

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

   

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

   

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

   

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

   

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

   

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

   

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

   

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

   

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

   

Breed is stronger than pasture.

   

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

   

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

   

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

   

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

   

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

   

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

   

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

   

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