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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Thomas Hardy

I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Drama Experience Happiness Impression Leadership Learning Life Live Placement Subject
The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Body Remark Sky Stars Time
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
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
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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Better Children Disappoint Game Life Lose Play Possible Worst
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Argument Custom Moral Poet
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
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
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

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