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All romances end at marriage.

Thomas Hardy

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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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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
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Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
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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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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.
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My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
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