Her companion, also in black, appeared as a well-formed young woman about 18, completely possessed of that ephemeral precious essence youth, which is itself beauty, irrespective of complexion or contour.
("The Mayor of Casterbridge")
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How much I love I know not, life not known,Save as some unit I would add love by;
But this I know, my being is but thine own--
Fused from its separateness by ecstasy.
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And the spirits of those who were homing Passed on, rushingly, Like the Pentecost Wind.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.
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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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Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.
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