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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
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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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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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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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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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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.
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To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
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You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving
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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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My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
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