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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.

Thomas Hardy

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
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
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
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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Humanity Imperfection Sweet Touch
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
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Brain Mathematics Thinking Woman
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
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
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Avoid Eyes Pain Path Sound Story
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
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
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
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
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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Enough Feeling Happiness Natural Position Social
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Difference Heaven Man Object Religion

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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