Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
Weitere Zitate von George Eliot
Zum Autor"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
"When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child."
"It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs."
"On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers."
"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."
"What secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?"