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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

Thomas Hardy

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDY

Delight Earth Enjoyment Fashion Happiness Light Myself
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
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
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
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
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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Fate Man Villain
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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Business Novel Poet Sorry
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
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
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong

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