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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
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Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
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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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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!
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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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She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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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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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
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I agree to the conditions, Angel because you know best what my punishment ought to be only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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