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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.

Thomas Hardy

That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Autumn Past Summer Thinking Time
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Beginning Better Path 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
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Care Deserve Honor Myself People Talent
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
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Artist Execution Ideas Interest Myself Preference Skill Thinking Weakness Word
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
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
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

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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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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