It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
THOMAS HARDYYou, 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!
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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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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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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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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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