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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.

Thomas Hardy

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
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
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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Difficult Expression Feeling Language Man Woman
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution Fantasy
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
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
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
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
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Better Hide Offense Truth
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Beginning Lover Secret Woman
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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Cheating Dog Equality Feeling Heart Human Kind True
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Argument Custom Moral Poet
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Feature Tree Voice Wood
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

I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.

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