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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

Thomas Hardy

You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Believe Capability Childhood Love Myself Nature Possession Protection
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
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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Desire Greatness Love Madness Passionate
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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Best Devotion Failure Greatness Kind Man Remember Selfish
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
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
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
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
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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Distance Dreams Hope Privacy Soul Sun
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
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
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
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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Enough Feeling Happiness Natural Position Social
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble

She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

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