Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.George Eliot
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.
George Eliot
She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was.
George Eliot
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
George Eliot
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before--consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.
George Eliot
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