Clare Carlisle

“Through such repetitions people keep their promises, and endure through time. They return to themselves, but by stepping forwards, not by thinking back – and this is how human beings remain true to their loves.”
― Clare Carlisle, Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard

“The most important thing, she told Oscar Browning — a flamboyant Eton schoolmaster who had become her devoted friend — was to ‘make a few lives near to us better than they would have been without our presence in the world’.”
― Clare Carlisle, The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life