If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
THOMAS HARDYSome 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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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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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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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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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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