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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Thomas Hardy

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
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
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
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
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
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
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Hands Heart Herself Perfection Woman Work
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
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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Desire Greatness Love Madness Passionate
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
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
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Brain Mathematics Thinking Woman
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
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
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

I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

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