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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.
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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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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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This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
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The defective can be more than the entire.
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She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
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Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
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She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
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