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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.
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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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A novel is an impression, not an argument and there the matter must rest.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Always wanting another man than your own.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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He wished she knew his impressions but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.
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There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.
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There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
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