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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

Thomas Hardy

You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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Burn Flame Heart Love Myself Passion Woman Yourself
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Life Myself Pieces Prayer
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Believe Deal Goodness Reality Strange
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Failure Marriage Observation Path People Regular
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Experience Intense Life Measurement
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
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
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
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Alone Himself Move Talk World
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Herself Strength Strong Weakness Woman Worst

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