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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 your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.
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Thomas Hardy |
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08e06ab
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They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they.
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Thomas Hardy |
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58d4d66
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How strange and god-like was a composer's power, who from the grave could lead through sequences of emotion, which he alone had felt at first, a girl like her who had never heard of his name, and never would have a clue to his personality.
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Thomas Hardy |
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1632511
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Justice" was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess."
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Thomas Hardy |
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46d6df7
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I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles,
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Thomas Hardy |
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1240e7c
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What a fool she must have been ever to have had anything to do with the man!
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Thomas Hardy |
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153e15e
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Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life;
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Thomas Hardy |
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6f1ca7e
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Only a wall divided him from those happy young contemporaries of his with whom he shared a common mental life; men who had nothing to do from morning till night but to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Only a wall--but what a wall!
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Thomas Hardy |
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d4f89f8
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Jude continued his walk homeward alone, pondering so deeply that he forgot to feel timid. He suddenly grew older. It had been the yearning of his heart to find something to anchor on, to cling to--for some place which he could call admirable. Should he find that place in this city if he could get there? Would it be a spot in which, without fear of farmers, or hindrance, or ridicule, he could watch and wait, and set himself to some mighty un..
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Thomas Hardy |
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09d1658
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But you will never realize that an incident which filled but a degree in the circle of your thoughts covered the whole circumference of mine. No person can see exactly what and where another's horizon is.
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Thomas Hardy |
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8e627fa
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On a Fine Morning" in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) WHENCE comes Solace?--Not from seeing What is doing, suffering, being, Not from noting Life's conditions, Nor from heeding Time's monitions; But in cleaving to the Dream, And in gazing at the gleam Whereby gray things golden seem. This do I this heyday, holding Shadows but as lights unfolding, As no specious show this moment With its iris-hued embowment; But as nothing ot..
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Thomas Hardy |
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3a7cfaf
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For the love of men like Fitzpiers is unquestionably of such quality as to bear division and transference. He had indeed once declared, though not to her, that on one occasion he had noticed himself to be possessed by five distinct infatuations at the same time. If this were true, his differed from the highest affection as the lower orders of the animal world differ from advanced organisms, partition causing not death but a multiplied exist..
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Thomas Hardy |
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1fa9a8e
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Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears.
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thomas-hardy
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Thomas Hardy |
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0818b6f
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She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write...
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Thomas Hardy |
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5a6c5a0
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you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.
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Thomas Hardy |
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4cde06f
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The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and 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 dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars. After such a nocturnal reconnoitre it is hard to get bac..
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Thomas Hardy |
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f80dbad
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I have been thinking ... that the social moulds 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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social-constraints
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Thomas Hardy |
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18ea334
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WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,' And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns and duns, And thresh and ply; And h..
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observation
weather
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Thomas Hardy |
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6445843
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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.
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Thomas Hardy |
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6a70d91
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Women are never tired of bewailing man's fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy.
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love
fickleness
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Thomas Hardy |
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779c504
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You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always
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romantic
declarations-of-love
far-from-the-madding-crowd
love-you-forever
steadfast
thomas-hardy
gabriel-oak
loyal
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Thomas Hardy |
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d9b94ec
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There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.
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Thomas Hardy |
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8a9b84a
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l'n lrjl mkhlwft Gby@ wmkhlS@! w qd yHwlwn ltGlb `l~ msh`r lHb fy dkhlhm wlkn ljmy` syGrq fy lHzn w lkab@.
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Thomas Hardy |
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18d0b15
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The stage of mental comfort to which they had arrived at this hour was one wherein their souls expanded beyond their skins, and spread their personalities warmly through the room.
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Thomas Hardy |
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ce165e1
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Thought failed him, and he returned to realities.
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Thomas Hardy |
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82d8e73
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People who have always gone right don't know half as much about the nature and ways of going right as those do who have gone wrong.
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Thomas Hardy |
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e907426
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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 seemed they were.
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Thomas Hardy |
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c2505da
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Bygones would never be complete bygones till she was a bygone herself.
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Thomas Hardy |
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6151bd7
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To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating.
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Thomas Hardy |
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42ad984
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There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure. It is the usual experience of strong natures when they love.
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Thomas Hardy |
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de2306d
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As Antigone said, I am neither a dweller among men nor ghosts.
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Thomas Hardy |
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f434f35
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But time is short, and science is infinite...
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time
science
life
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Thomas Hardy |
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dac6eec
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I am in a chaos of principles--groping in the dark--acting by instinct and not after example. Eight or nine years ago when I came here first, I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best. There, gentle..
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Thomas Hardy |
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601426b
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But a new thing, a great hitch, had happened yesterday in the gliding and noiseless current of his life, and he felt as a snake must feel who has sloughed off its winter skin, and cannot understand the brightness and sensitiveness of its new one.
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Thomas Hardy |
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c4c09c9
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To be conscious that the end of a dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end.
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Thomas Hardy |
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0d813be
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You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.
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way-of-speaking
sue-bridehead
talk
girl
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Thomas Hardy |
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78684d2
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He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears...
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Thomas Hardy |
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896ae3b
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It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be called-- were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who should be as cold-blooded as a fish and as selfish as a pig to have a really good chance of being one of his country's worthies. You may ridicule me--I am quite willing that you should-- I am a fit subject, no doubt. But I think if you knew what I ha..
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progress
generations
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Thomas Hardy |
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493c4cc
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Tess was awake before dawn -- at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.
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nature
dawn
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Thomas Hardy |
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1fbfc94
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She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.
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theology
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Thomas Hardy |
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edf5901
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There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be--knew all that a guide, philosopher, and friend should know. She thought every line in the contour of his person the perfection of masculine beauty, his soul the soul of a saint, his intellect that of a seer. The wisdom of her love for him, as love, sustained her dignity; she seemed to be wearing a crown. The compassion of ..
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love
dignity
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Thomas Hardy |
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37ca7e7
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My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
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Thomas Hardy |
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dbffc7a
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Her companion, also in black, appeared as a well-formed young woman about 18, completely possessed of that ephemeral precious essence youth, which is itself beauty, irrespective of complexion or contour.
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Thomas Hardy |
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9ee678b
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To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind. I would deceive her, And so leave her, But ah! she is so constant and so kind
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Thomas Hardy |