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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Thomas Hardy

She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Bright Ideal Mental Sin
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Experience Intense Life Measurement
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
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
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 was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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Humanity Imperfection Sweet Touch
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Hands Heart Herself Perfection Woman Work
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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Comfortable Force Happiness Marriage Natural People Resistance
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

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