There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
THOMAS HARDYLet me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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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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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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All romances end at marriage.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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