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George Eliot

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

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"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

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"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."

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"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

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"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"

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"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

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"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

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"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."

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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

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"Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too."

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"It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for."
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"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."
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"Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope."
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"Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
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"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
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"Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."
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"Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness."
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"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."
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