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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Thomas Hardy

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Better Hide Offense Truth
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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Adventure Dreams Emotion Happiness Universe
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
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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Best Devotion Failure Greatness Kind Man Remember Selfish
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
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
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
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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Black Earth Enough Happiness Life Security Sorrow Yourself
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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
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Fire God Home Love Myself 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
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

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