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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Thomas Hardy

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
The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Body Remark Sky Stars Time
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
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
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
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
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
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
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
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
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
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Death Life Love Myself

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

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