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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Thomas Hardy |
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They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
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Thomas Hardy |
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06e7a56
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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.
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woman
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Thomas Hardy |
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9342ba0
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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Thomas Hardy |
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27626f1
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Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
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suffering
life
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Thomas Hardy |
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3b4a302
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Thomas Hardy |
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Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted." "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?" "A blighted one."
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Thomas Hardy |
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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.
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marriage
nature
force-of-nature
matrimony
self-deception
pleasure
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Thomas Hardy |
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b94ff23
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Thomas Hardy |
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c6aff51
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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!
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Thomas Hardy |
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583e0f0
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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
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feelings
women
strength
tess
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Thomas Hardy |
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038135c
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But no one came. Because no one ever does.
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Thomas Hardy |
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28740f7
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I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Thomas Hardy |
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c966147
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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks...
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Thomas Hardy |
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e70c94a
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Thomas Hardy |
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1ffea51
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be-- and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak
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Thomas Hardy |
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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go-..
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lying
love
heartbreaker
sue-bridehead
heartbroken
selfish
deception
flirting
cruel
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Thomas Hardy |
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7235576
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Thomas Hardy |
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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
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Thomas Hardy |
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198440a
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Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.
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Thomas Hardy |
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113f9d8
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our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes
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sometimes
judgement
strong
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Thomas Hardy |
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a0b6832
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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!
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unrequited-love
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Thomas Hardy |
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f81254f
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Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
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Thomas Hardy |
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66c8d7c
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She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.
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women
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Thomas Hardy |
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baed2ff
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This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?
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Thomas Hardy |
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21dcb6c
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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....
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Thomas Hardy |
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76744bb
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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passion
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Thomas Hardy |
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591b237
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Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.
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relationships
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Thomas Hardy |
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5d7232d
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You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Thomas Hardy |
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a4be6ae
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I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!
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Thomas Hardy |
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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
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woman
love
loved
unrequited
sexes
cruelty
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Thomas Hardy |
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1d90294
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it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall be that person's lover. There would be a much likelier chance of his doing it if he were told not to love. If the marriage ceremony consisted in an oath and signed contract between the parties to cease loving from that day forward, in consideration of personal possession being given, and to avoid each other's society as much as possible in public..
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love
ardor
fidelity
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Thomas Hardy |
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4279d5c
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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? "
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Thomas Hardy |
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Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [...] Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only--finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember that your nature and you past doings have been kist like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming l..
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Thomas Hardy |
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250eacb
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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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Thomas Hardy |
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In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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perception
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Thomas Hardy |
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c779916
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We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
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Thomas Hardy |
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Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her--doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.
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Thomas Hardy |
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4e24f95
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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marry
single
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Thomas Hardy |
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930b861
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How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as deep and speaking he had seen before, and cheeks perhaps as fair; brows as arched, a chin and throat almost as shapely; her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth. To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift..
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perfection
love
imperfection
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Thomas Hardy |
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b77115a
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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
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possession
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Thomas Hardy |
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70558fc
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Thomas Hardy |
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73ba82b
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Thomas Hardy |
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2b057e1
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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!
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Thomas Hardy |