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 HARDYLove is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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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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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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