The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
THOMAS HARDYHappiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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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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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.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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