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Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
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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.
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... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
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Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
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When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.
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