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“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”
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“Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we’re doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference.”
― Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
― Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
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