Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I can paint in jail.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.
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After a momentary silence spake Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make; 'They sneer at me for leaning all awry: What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?'
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.
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The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.
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Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
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Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
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If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
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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.
