It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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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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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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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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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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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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