But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
THOMAS HARDYLove is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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