What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Quote by George Eliot

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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true...

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true...

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Consequences are unpitying.

Consequences are unpitying.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful...

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful...

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling...

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling...

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?