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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Thomas Hardy

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Early Eyes Freedom Touch
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
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 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
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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Fate Man Villain
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
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 have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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Burn Flame Heart Love Myself Passion Woman Yourself
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

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