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!
THOMAS HARDYI 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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All romances end at marriage.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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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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Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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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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