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- ...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he…
- A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
- The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by…
- ...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the…
- Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
- How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O,…
- Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like…
- That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be…
- Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
- Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some…
- ...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
- The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?'…
- We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by;…
- You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.
- 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…
- Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition…
- Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man…
- The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours…
- All romances end at marriage.
- I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and…
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