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  1. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
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  2. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
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  3. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
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  4. George Eliot _ The Mill on the Floss

    Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.
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  5. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
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  6. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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  7. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.
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  8. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
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  9. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others.
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  10. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    After all, the true seeing is within.
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  11. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.
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  12. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    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.
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