$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$

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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

Thomas Hardy

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
THOMAS HARDY

Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman
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 HARDY

Death Life Love Myself
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.
THOMAS HARDY

Beginning Lover Secret Woman
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
THOMAS HARDY

Difficult Expression Feeling Language Man Woman
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
THOMAS HARDY

Best Devotion Failure Greatness Kind Man Remember Selfish
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
THOMAS HARDY

Listening Man Silence Wonderful
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.
THOMAS HARDY

Artist Execution Ideas Interest Myself Preference Skill Thinking Weakness Word
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
THOMAS HARDY

Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
THOMAS HARDY

Death Goodness Illustration Moral Story Success
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
THOMAS HARDY

Beautiful Bird Eyes Learning Sing Sweet Terrible
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
THOMAS HARDY

Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
THOMAS HARDY

Difference Fantasy Hands History Love Passion Weakness
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
THOMAS HARDY

Fall In Love Hide Justice Myself Relationship Reveal Wrong Yourself
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
THOMAS HARDY

Feature Tree Voice Wood
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
THOMAS HARDY

Afraid Heart Trouble
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
THOMAS HARDY

Evolution Fantasy