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 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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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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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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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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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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All romances end at marriage.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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 his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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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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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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