But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
THOMAS HARDYWhen 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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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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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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