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“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“She heard footsteps brushing the grass, and had a consciousnesss that love was encircling her like a perfume.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“The daylight has nothing to show me, since you are not here, and I don't like to see the rooks and starlings in the fields, because I grieve and grieve to miss you who used to see them with me. I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save me from what threatens me! - Your faithful heartbroken”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles