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Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings be...more

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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

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A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

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What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each ot...more

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Those slight words and looks and touches are part of the soul's language; and the finest language, I believe, is chiefly made up of unimposing words, ...more

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I told you from the beginning—as soon as I could—I told you I was afraid of myself." There was a piteous pleading in the low murmur in which Deronda t...more

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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.

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I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten anyone whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so.

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Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

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I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

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Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted ...more

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I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done ...more

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On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a goo...more

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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.