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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Thomas Hardy

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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
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
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
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
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Beginning Better Path Worst
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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Cheating Dog Equality Feeling Heart Human Kind True
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Generosity License Love Woman
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance

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