There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
THOMAS HARDYTo 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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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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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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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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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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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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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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