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you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.
Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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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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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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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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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A novel is an impression, not an argument and there the matter must rest.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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