When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted.George Eliot
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. . . he was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to hide or confess.
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Hell is oneself Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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