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.
THOMAS HARDYThe first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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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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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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