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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy

You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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Burn Flame Heart Love Myself Passion Woman Yourself
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Artist Execution Ideas Interest Myself Preference Skill Thinking Weakness Word
Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Generosity License Love Woman
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Failure Marriage Observation Path People Regular
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Avoid Evil Frame Impossible
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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Difference Fantasy Hands History Love Passion Weakness
Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Drama Experience Happiness Impression Leadership Learning Life Live Placement Subject
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution Fantasy
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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Cheating Dog Equality Feeling Heart Human Kind True
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Brain Mathematics Thinking Woman
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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Death Life Love Myself
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful

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