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1b2982e
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She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air was producing staggerings and serpentine courses among the men who had partaken too freely; some of the more careless women were also wandering in their gait. . . . Yet however terrestrial and lumpy their appearance just now to the mean unglamoured eye, to themselves the case was different. They followed the road with ..
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women
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Thomas Hardy |
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0f40a83
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She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.
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faith
conditioning
worry
habit
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Thomas Hardy |
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4cd31f4
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God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.
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Thomas Hardy |
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3a8da97
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I can't bear that they, and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!
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Thomas Hardy |
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4583c9e
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And they will pause just for an instant, and give a sigh to me, and think, "Poor girl!" believing they do great justice to my memory by this. But they will never, never realize that it was my single opportunity of existence, as well as of doing my duty, which they are regarding; they will not feel that what to them is but a thought, easily held in those two words of pity, "Poor girl!" was a whole life to me, as full of hours, minutes, and p..
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mourning
life
grieving
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Thomas Hardy |
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8b17186
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It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful.
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thomas-hardy
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Thomas Hardy |
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92cc92a
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I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!
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woman
social-code
sue-bridehead
slave
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Thomas Hardy |
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7c2e395
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Stupors, however, do not last forever
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Thomas Hardy |
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131d61d
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Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.
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Thomas Hardy |
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9068192
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That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.
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senses
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Thomas Hardy |
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bf6e2c9
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She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world's concern at her situation - was founded on illusion. 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.
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self-absorption
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Thomas Hardy |
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073dcd7
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When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson's opinion on law, the lawyer's on doctoring, the doctor's on business, and my business-man's . . . on morals.
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opinions
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Thomas Hardy |
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6dafd6f
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Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought.
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Thomas Hardy |
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703fa29
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He is a sort of steady man in a wild way, you know. That's better than to be as some are, wild in a steady way. I am afraid that's how I am.
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Thomas Hardy |
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67f3355
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It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart's desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven.
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Thomas Hardy |
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a7fd6b0
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His parted lips were lips which spoke, not of love, but of millions of miles; those were eyes which habitually gazed, not into the depths of other eyes, but into other worlds. Within his temples dwelt thoughts, not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations.
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Thomas Hardy |
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63f6060
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Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.
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love
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Thomas Hardy |
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6edb7f5
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experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.
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Thomas Hardy |
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47d3c3c
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Why, you make anyone think that loving is a thing that can be done and undone, and put on and put off at a mere whim.
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Thomas Hardy |
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ea53726
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If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways--not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.
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women
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Thomas Hardy |
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1c874ba
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A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, as he is reserved or ingenuous, overflowing or self-contained.
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Thomas Hardy |
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41549a2
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I was born bad, and I have lived bad, and I shall die bad in all probability.
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Thomas Hardy |
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6f075ee
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What woman, indeed, among the most faithful adherents of the truth, believes the promises and threats of the Word in the sense in which she believes in her own children, or would not throw her theology to the wind if weighed against their happiness?
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Thomas Hardy |
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a192b01
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Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes of Oak's flute. It came from the direction of a small dark object under the hedge - a shephard's hut - now presenting an outline to which an unintiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use. ... Being a man not without a frequent consciousness that there was some charm in this life he led, he stood ..
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nature
independence
freedom
gabriel-oak
shepherd
gabriel
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Thomas Hardy |
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54e2a49
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I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!
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tess
nobility
honour
pride
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Thomas Hardy |
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3a758f1
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A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere mental phenomena for serene contemplation, and no longer stood as pressing concretions which chafed body and soul.
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Thomas Hardy |
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beb6f25
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He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaking of one. He was at the brightest period of masculine life, for his intellect and emotions were clearly separate; he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the state wherin they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the ..
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youth-age
masculinity
intellect
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Thomas Hardy |
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5a6c488
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This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was. But over them both there hung a deeper shade than the shade which Angel Clare perceived, namely, the shade of his own limitations. With all his attempted independence of judgment this advanced and well-meaning young man, a sample product of the last five-and-twenty years, was yet the slave to custom and conventionality when surprised back in..
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Thomas Hardy |
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5bd37f2
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She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake's. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils.The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her.It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beau..
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Thomas Hardy |
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b1f7e6b
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He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things.
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nature
life
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Thomas Hardy |
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7c89be8
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Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.
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reading
animal-welfare
jude-the-obscure
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Thomas Hardy |
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8539fff
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Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves or or in our friends...
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motives
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Thomas Hardy |
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8c3c868
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I shan't forget you, Jude,' he said, smiling, as the cart moved off. 'Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.
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Thomas Hardy |
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6f146a4
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The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier, were suffering a curious collapse into a corner, he knew not how.
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Thomas Hardy |
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06429f5
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The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful.
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Thomas Hardy |
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7dcc364
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The first man he came to was running about in a great hurry, as if his thoughts were several yards in advance of his body, which they could never drag on fastt enough.
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Thomas Hardy |
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03ce5d5
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She looked towards the western sky, which was now aglow like some vast foundry wherein new worlds were cast
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Thomas Hardy |
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bd90d18
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I don't--know about ghosts, but I do know that our souls can be made to go outside our bodies when we are alive... A very easy way to feel 'em go is to lie on the grass at night, and look straight up at some big bright star; and by fixing your mind upon it you will soon find that you are hundreds and hundreds o' miles away from your body, which you don't seem to want at all.
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Thomas Hardy |
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28d6492
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Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
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Thomas Hardy |
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344e22f
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Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.
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love
rivalry
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Thomas Hardy |
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5e4dd0b
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I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.
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human-insignificance
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Thomas Hardy |
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c2ee2e8
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The Man He Killed Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have set us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place. I shot him dead because-- Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That's clear enough; although He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand like--just as I-- Was out of work--had sold his trap..
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Thomas Hardy |
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0bde7f3
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Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
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faith
sovereignty-of-god
disillusionment
disappointment
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Thomas Hardy |
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cc5b2b2
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How people will talk about one's doings!" Fancy exclaimed. "Well, if you make songs about yourself, my dear, you can't blame other people for singing 'em."
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Thomas Hardy |