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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Thomas Hardy

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
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Fall In Love Hide Justice Myself Relationship Reveal Wrong Yourself
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
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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Black Earth Enough Happiness Life Security Sorrow Yourself
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Believe Deal Goodness Reality Strange
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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Adventure Dreams Emotion Happiness Universe
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
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Argument Custom Moral Poet
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Better Hide Offense Truth
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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Beautiful Bird Eyes Learning Sing Sweet Terrible
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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Fate Man Villain
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain

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