If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
THOMAS HARDYHappiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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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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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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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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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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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All romances end at marriage.
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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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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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