It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
THOMAS HARDYPeople 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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All romances end at marriage.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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