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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Thomas Hardy

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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Couple Love Marriage Relationship
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Distance Man See Woman
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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Delight Earth Enjoyment Fashion Happiness Light Myself
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
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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Cruelty Different Fate Hope Indulgence Love Obstacle Sad
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
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
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
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Avoid Evil Frame Impossible
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
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
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

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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