George Eliot
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1819
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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relation of the least-instructed human beings...
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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
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That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
best-friend friendship relationship
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
sympathy marriage relation
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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I'm more and more impressed with the duty of finding happiness
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I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men
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I'm not denying that women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men.
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Oh may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence.