And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have. The people with the most security are in jail. That is why it is called ‘maximum security.

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures.

Written By George Eliot

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