Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
THOMAS HARDYYou, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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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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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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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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 first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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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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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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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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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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