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    William Shakespeare
    “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
    The more I have, for both are infinite.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: soul, souls
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

    - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, deeds, good, leo-tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
    ― Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: classic
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, peace
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, woman
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    Thomas Hardy
    “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 the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
    "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
    "A blighted one.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: stars
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: alec, feelings, strength, tess, women
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    Thomas Hardy
    “My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: love, passion
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    Thomas Hardy
    “I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: blighted, star
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
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    Thomas Hardy
    “That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: romance
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    Thomas Hardy
    “What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?"

    "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come."

    "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!"

    She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved.

    "I am ready," she said quietly.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Bless thy simplicity, Tess”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: characterization
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    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”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
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    Ian McEwan
    “Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: lovely
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    Graeme Simsion
    “I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.”
    ― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: love, romance
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    Jane Austen
    “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: men, mountains, rocks
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    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness
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    Jane Austen
    “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: classics
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    Jane Austen
    “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: mr-darcy, pride-and-prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, past, pleasure, remembrance
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