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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
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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
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
Thomas Hardy -
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
Thomas Hardy -
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
Thomas Hardy -
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.
Thomas Hardy -
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
Thomas Hardy -
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
Thomas Hardy
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
Thomas Hardy -
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
Thomas Hardy -
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
Thomas Hardy -
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.
Thomas Hardy -
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
Thomas Hardy
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
Thomas Hardy -
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
Thomas Hardy -
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 -
Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!
Thomas Hardy -
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
Thomas Hardy -
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!
Thomas Hardy
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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.
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The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies.
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Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?
Thomas Hardy -
That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.
Thomas Hardy