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Quote by George Eliot
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. – George Eliot

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. – George Eliot

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Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. – Jacques Prévert

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No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. – E.M. Cioran

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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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