I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
THOMAS HARDYWomen are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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All romances end at marriage.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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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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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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