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

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

Thomas Hardy

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
THOMAS HARDY

Change Exception Surprise Time
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
THOMAS HARDY

Judgement Ourselves Strong
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 HARDY

Humanity Imperfection Sweet Touch
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
THOMAS HARDY

Better Children Disappoint Game Life Lose Play Possible Worst
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
THOMAS HARDY

Failure Marriage Observation Path People Regular
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
THOMAS HARDY

Reflection Work
Some folk want their luck buttered.
THOMAS HARDY

Friendship Lucky One Liner
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
THOMAS HARDY

Business Novel Poet Sorry
She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
THOMAS HARDY

Bright Ideal Mental Sin
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.
THOMAS HARDY

Distance Dreams Hope Privacy Soul Sun
To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
THOMAS HARDY

Desire Greatness Love Madness Passionate
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.
THOMAS HARDY

Herself Strength Strong Weakness Woman Worst
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
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
THOMAS HARDY

Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
THOMAS HARDY

Cheating Dog Equality Feeling Heart Human Kind True
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