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57b0463
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say "See!" to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply "Here!" to a body's cry of "Where?" till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome, outworn game. We may wonder whether at the acme and summit of the human progress these anachron..
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Thomas Hardy |
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64a52da
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Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.
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Thomas Hardy |
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803a817
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Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
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Thomas Hardy |
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22a3c1d
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
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Thomas Hardy |
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8506752
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She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.
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Thomas Hardy |
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9029a9f
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All romances end at marriage.
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Thomas Hardy |
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9b86d7c
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There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
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Thomas Hardy |
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4adff3f
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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but ..
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pain
illusion
tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
thomas-hardy
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Thomas Hardy |
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f9f9eac
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness,
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Thomas Hardy |
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be4252d
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Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe."
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hope
life
durbyfield
tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
thomas-hardy
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Thomas Hardy |
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4302a91
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Never in her life - she could swear it from the bottom of her soul - had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?
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Thomas Hardy |
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fc3331c
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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.
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Thomas Hardy |
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e548175
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she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Thomas Hardy |
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0c0affa
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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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star
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Thomas Hardy |
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7629d46
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Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.
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Thomas Hardy |
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0c86a4f
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say.
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Thomas Hardy |
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bff8012
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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Thomas Hardy |
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6074605
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What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad--yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly."
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Thomas Hardy |
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b606d58
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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.
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unhappiness
dissatisfaction
drama-queen
self-delusion
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Thomas Hardy |
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469d405
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This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown..
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marriage
feelings
passion
love
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Thomas Hardy |
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3d2a090
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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trees
wood
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Thomas Hardy |
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7103368
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I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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warning
moral
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Thomas Hardy |
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ae9dd3c
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What a way Oak had, she thought, of enduring things. Boldwood, who seemed so much deeper and higher and stronger in feeling than Gabriel, had not yet learnt, any more than she herself, the simple lesson which Oak showed a mastery of by every turn and look he gave--that among the multitude of interests by which he was surrounded, those which affected his personal well-being were not the most absorbing and important in his eyes. Oak meditativ..
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Thomas Hardy |
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c775fe6
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When a strong woman 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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Thomas Hardy |
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26846c6
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Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order
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Thomas Hardy |
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8cc99b9
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I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman's moments.
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Thomas Hardy |
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29e5ccf
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To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the st..
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individuality
nature
spirituality
soul
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Thomas Hardy |
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0ec5edf
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But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.
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women
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Thomas Hardy |
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f2ef5f3
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There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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music
humor
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Thomas Hardy |
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aea6cb0
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
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Thomas Hardy |
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b5015b8
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I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
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Thomas Hardy |
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cfd5827
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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Thomas Hardy |
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f0d9df2
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I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
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Thomas Hardy |
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188c996
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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relationship
confide
unfair
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Thomas Hardy |
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499c05f
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Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Thomas Hardy |
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eeef251
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You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.
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sex
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Thomas Hardy |
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7c429e4
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She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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Thomas Hardy |
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8a02ebc
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George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day--another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
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Thomas Hardy |
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b32e0ee
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He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do."
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trickster
sue-bridehead
fairy
unrequited-love
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Thomas Hardy |
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10b017b
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They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
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Thomas Hardy |
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3692665
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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 virtue..
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parental-love
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Thomas Hardy |
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d447c14
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He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.
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Thomas Hardy |
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8bb3100
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Some folks want their luck buttered.
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Thomas Hardy |
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ab5a1e4
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Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds
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Thomas Hardy |