We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
THOMAS HARDYIndifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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