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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

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
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
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Alone Himself Move Talk World
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man 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
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Avoid Evil Frame Impossible
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
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
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

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

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