Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
THOMAS HARDYIs a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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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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Some 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.
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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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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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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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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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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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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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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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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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 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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