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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At the last moment there is always a reason not existing before—namely, the impossibility of further vacillation.

George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The inclinations which he had deliberately stated on the 2d of October he would think it enough to refer to by the mention of that date.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His handsome face remained handsome—and nothing more.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is a dreadful thing to make an idiot fond of you, when you yourself are not of an affectionate disposition: especially an idiot with a pitchfork—obviously a difficult friend to shake off by rough usage.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You cry aloud at horrors that would vanish If you would change the light.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gwendolen’s coffee and toast should still be of the hottest and crispest.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Her brain would be busy with wild romances of a flight from home in search of something less sordid and dreary: — she would go to some great man—Walter Scott, perhaps.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You have not the best of it in all things, O youngsters!

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In our eagerness to explain impressions, we often lose our hold of the sympathy that comprehends them.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences: and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Watch your own speech, and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purposes.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The crane with outspread wing that heads the file Pauses not, feels no backward impulses: Behind it summer was, and is no more; Before it lies the summer it will reach Or fall in mid-ocean. You no less Must feel the force sublime of growing life.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As Irishmen resume their strongest brogue when they are fervid or quarrelsome.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling, if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it—

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Such patience have the heroes who begin, Sailing first to lands which others win.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This world is not a very fine place for a good many of the people in it. But I've made up my mind it shan't be the worse for me, if I can help it.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self—

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So long as a belief in propositions is regarded as indispensable to salvation, the pursuit of truth as such is not possible, any more than it is possible for a man who is swimming for his life to make meteorological observations on the storm which threatens to overwhelm him.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Men overrate the necessity for humouring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humour.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

4 September 1855. We are leading no life of self-indulgence, except indeed, that being happy in each other, we find everything easy.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Men followed me from one country to another. I was living a myriad lives in one. I did not want a child.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Surely the acme of poetry hitherto is the conception of the suffering Messiah and the final triumph.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The very furniture in the room seemed to have shrunk since she saw it before: the stag in the tapestry looked more like a ghost in his ghostly blue-green world.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In those times, as now, there were human beings who never saw angels or heard perfectly clear messages. Such truth as came to them was brought confusedly in the voices and deeds of men not at all like the seraphs of unfailing wing and piercing vision—

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

On the first of September, in the memorable year 1832, some one was expected at Transome Court.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

He was lying on the ground now by his mother's chair, with his straw hat laid flat over his eyes, while Jim on the other side was reading aloud from that beloved writer who has made a chief part in the happiness of many young lives. The volume was Ivanhoe.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I plead guilty to occasional misanthropical thoughts, but not to the indulgence of them.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I say nothing. Before I bring words to market, I should like to see 'em a bit scarcer.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It was half after ten i’ the forenoon, when I hev my pint as reg’lar as the clock.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“Ah,” said Dolly, with soothing gravity, “it’s like the night and the morning, and the sleeping and the waking, and the rain and the harvest — one goes and the other comes, and we know nothing how nor where.”

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Tears are no good; they only put out the fire within, and it is the fire that works.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It is astonishing how gravely men look at each other when they are all in the fashion.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One of those events at which marble statues might well be believed to perspire.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I will pay attention to your caution about the danger of huddling up my stories. Conclusions are the weak point of most authors, but some of the fault lies in the very nature of a conclusion, which is at best a negation.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Who shall tell what may be the effect of writing?

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

May I ask why you returned from America? I considered that the strong wish you expressed to go there, when an adequate sum was furnished, was tantamount to an engagement that you would remain there for life.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Old men’s eyes are like old men’s memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It was that moment in summer when the sound of the scythe being whetted makes us cast more lingering looks at the flower-sprinkled tresses of the meadows.

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