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.
THOMAS HARDYYou 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!
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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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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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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