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“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”

George Eliot · Truth

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George Eliot

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

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George Eliot

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

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