I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
THOMAS HARDYThe sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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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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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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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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All romances end at marriage.
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