Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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All romances end at marriage.
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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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