Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
THOMAS HARDYLove is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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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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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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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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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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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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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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