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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

George Eliot
Inspirational, Desire, Conquer
George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.123, George Eliot

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

George Eliot
Mind, Desire, Arriving
George Eliot (1875). “Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

George Eliot
Men, Vegetables, Desire
George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.168

Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.

George Eliot
Joy, Soul, Desire
George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda0: Collection of British and American Authors”, p.2

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

George Eliot
Past, Years, Desire
George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.

George Eliot
Judging, Desire, Paradise
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.720, Wordsworth Editions

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