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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Thomas Hardy

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
THOMAS HARDY

Distance Man See Woman
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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Death Goodness Illustration Moral Story Success
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Age Development Early Friendship Job Man Old Performance Reach Value
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
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
Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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Cruelty Different Fate Hope Indulgence Love Obstacle Sad
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman
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
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Feeling Impression Power Remark Silence Soul Speech
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success

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