See what deceits love sows in honest minds! - Thomas Hardy

...experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.

I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.

...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.