QUOTES by Thomas Hardy
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving
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She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die…
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...
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Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
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So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
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A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
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Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
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When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.
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I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Good, better, best Never let it rest, Till ur good is better And better is best.
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Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.
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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
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Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
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The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")
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I hate to be what is called a clever girl--there are too many of that sort now!
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You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it.
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