Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDYMy eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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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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