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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

Thomas Hardy

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
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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Better Children Disappoint Game Life Lose Play Possible Worst
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
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
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
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
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
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
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Distance Man See Woman
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Disappoint Fulfillment Hope Leaving Remove
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
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Fire God Home Love Myself Yourself
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Herself Strength Strong Weakness Woman Worst

To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

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