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Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze.
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Thomas Hardy |
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87324b5
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A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
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passion
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Thomas Hardy |
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6f2a58b
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She knew how to hit to a hair's breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty...At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. Rather they became a part of it; for the world is only a psychological phenomenon, and what they see..
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Thomas Hardy |
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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Thomas Hardy |
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1cbd244
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Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.
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thomas-hardy
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Thomas Hardy |
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91d04fd
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To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement. The sensation may be caused by the panoramic glide of the stars past earthly objects, which is perceptible in a few minutes of stillness, or by the better outlook upon space that a hill affords, or by the wind, or by the solitude; but whatever be its origin the impression of riding along is vivid and abidin..
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Thomas Hardy |
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the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.
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Thomas Hardy |
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3ef9ecf
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She philosophically noted dates as they came past in the revolution of the year. Her own birthday, and every other day individualized by incidents in which she had taken some share. She suddenly thought, one afternoon, that there was another date, of greater importance than all those; that of her own death; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not ..
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Thomas Hardy |
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d417c7f
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Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.
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Thomas Hardy |
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b6257db
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Thomas Hardy |
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ab2f0a0
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You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!
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Thomas Hardy |
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7535caf
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I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.
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prejudice
love
selflessness
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Thomas Hardy |
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d3d1a88
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A novel is an impression, not an argument.
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Thomas Hardy |
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f05f385
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die...
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Thomas Hardy |
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a7fcf0e
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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.
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Thomas Hardy |
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260f57a
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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relationships
women
secrets
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Thomas Hardy |
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796b4c9
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Bless thy simplicity, Tess
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Thomas Hardy |
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e08126f
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You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
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description
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Thomas Hardy |
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0b25efe
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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.
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senses
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Thomas Hardy |
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0fd81c2
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So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
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truth
wisdom
reflux
flux
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Thomas Hardy |
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d7b0407
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He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.
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the-woodlanders
thomas-hardy
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Thomas Hardy |
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2e49795
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He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.
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fiction
romance
far-from-the-madding-crowd
gabriel-oak
classic
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Thomas Hardy |
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455ec12
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Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
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men
women
queens
kings
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Thomas Hardy |
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81e5f11
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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. But since a woman can't show off in that way by herself, I shan't marry--at least not yet.
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thomas-hardy
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Thomas Hardy |
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65d239d
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I forgot the defective can be more than the whole
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Thomas Hardy |
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c036964
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Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.
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Thomas Hardy |
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85578fa
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Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry world hardly called for effusiveness, even when the path was suddenly irradiated at some half-way point by daybeams rich as hers. But her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more. And..
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pain
suffering
living
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Thomas Hardy |
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397adc4
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the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...
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sex
men
ethereal
nerves
prude
sue-bridehead
matrimony
temperament
sensitive
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Thomas Hardy |
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6a81bd5
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Thomas Hardy |
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02f860d
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To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.
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Thomas Hardy |
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f044126
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That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life,..
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Thomas Hardy |
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320d27e
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I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt about them as most women are taught to feel--to be on their guard against attacks on their virtue; for no average man-- no man short of a sensual savage--will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look 'Come on' he is alwa..
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virtue
sex
men
women
fear
molest
socializing
seduction
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Thomas Hardy |
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6b4cc25
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Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.
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Thomas Hardy |
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8533331
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Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity
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Thomas Hardy |
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6be52df
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The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!
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Thomas Hardy |
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c254ef9
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She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.
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peace-of-mind
planning
disappointment
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Thomas Hardy |
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3d62a6d
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Always wanting another man than your own.
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wanting
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Thomas Hardy |
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d707759
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Good, better, best Never let it rest,
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Thomas Hardy |
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f971c62
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Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?' 'That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel.
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rivals
far-from-the-madding-crowd
thomas-hardy
gabriel-oak
unrequited-love
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Thomas Hardy |
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399b6bf
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I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.
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Thomas Hardy |
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e9d6a31
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Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other's character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality. This good-fellowship--camaraderie--usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, because..
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Thomas Hardy |
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ab6cab9
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The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.
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Thomas Hardy |
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a15bfaa
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So that, whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes. It is just the same in everything; nothing is made for man.
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Thomas Hardy |
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0cf2992
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You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison." What monsters may they be?" Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitu..
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universe
science
cosmic
size
horror
monsters
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Thomas Hardy |