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A novel is an impression, not an argument and there the matter must rest.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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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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Done because we are too many.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
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Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
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All romances end at marriage.
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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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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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