"What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?"

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George Eliot

#Beauty Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Heart Quotes

“What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their â€œalienationâ€ as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.”
“Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.”
“What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.”
“Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.”
“Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.”
“It is a time-honored adage that love begats love...cast your bread upon the waters and ye shall receive it after many days, increased to a hundredfold.”
“The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.”
“You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.”

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