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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.

Thomas Hardy

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
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
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
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
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Avoid Eyes Pain Path Sound Story
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
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
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
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
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
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
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

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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