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.
THOMAS HARDYIf we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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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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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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