George Eliot Quote

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. - George Eliot

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

George Eliot

Genius

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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. - Isaac Newton

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. - Charlie Chaplin

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

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The man who does ill must suffer ill. - Aeschylus

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. - Seneca

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. - Michel de Montaigne

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

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Genius: the superhuman in man. - Victor Hugo

Genius: the superhuman in man.

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I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can. - Franz Schubert

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

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Man is a genius when he is dreaming. - Akira Kurosawa

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. - Jules Verne

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

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Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him? - Chuang Tzu

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

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Rather suffer than die is man's motto. - Jean de La Fontaine

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

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That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. - Phaedrus

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

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The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. - William Faulkner

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. - Victor Hugo

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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The man who runs may fight again. - Menander

The man who runs may fight again.

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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. - Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. - Michel de Montaigne

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. - Hesiod

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. - Aristophanes

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. - Marlene Dietrich

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

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