O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
THOMAS HARDYSome women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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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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All romances end at marriage.
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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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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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 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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