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Quotes from Romola — George Eliot

1819–1880 England

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But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

Romola (1863)

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Romola (1863)

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

Romola (1863)

Love does not aim simply at the conscious good of the beloved object: it is not satisfied without perfect loyalty of heart; it aims at its own completeness.

Romola (1863)

Tito was experiencing that inexorable law of human souls, that we prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil that gradually determines character.

Romola (1863)

The law was sacred. Yes, but rebellion might be sacred too. It flashed upon her mind that the problem before her was essentially the same as that which had lain before Savonarola—the problem where the sacredness of obedience ended, and where the sacredness of rebellion began.

Romola (1863)

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness

Romola (1863)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Eliot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.