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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
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War makes rattling good history.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
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You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.
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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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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
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So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
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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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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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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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