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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess? Yes. All like ours? I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted. Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one? A blighted one.
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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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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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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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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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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