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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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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I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.
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When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. Each thing, from the single grain of Dust to the strongest eldil, is the end and the final cause of all creation and the mirror in which the beam of His brightness comes to rest and so returns to Him. Blessed be He!
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I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!
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To bethe eyesand earsand conscienceof the Creator of the Universe,you fool.
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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.
