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“When you begin to claim someone as your man or woman, that's normally when you start to lose your ability to overwhelm them with desire.”

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Book:Jude the Obscure
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“I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies....”

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Book:Jude the Obscure
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