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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!

  Thomas Hardy

  Way, Helping, Chance

  Thomas Hardy (1892). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Believe, Eye, Looks

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.131, Diversion Books

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Past, Light, Long

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3574, Delphi Classics

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• You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

  Thomas Hardy

  Girl, Advantage

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.125, 谷月社

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• Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

  Thomas Hardy

  Mind, May, Tess Of The D Urbervilles

  Tess of the D'Urbervilles ch. 12 (1891)

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• you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sensual, Ethereal, Inhuman

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.307, 谷月社

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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!

  Thomas Hardy

  Angel, Punishment, Bears

  Thomas Hardy (2014). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.313, First Avenue Editions

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Distance, Hands, Suffering

  Thomas Hardy (1995). “Thomas Hardy: Three Great Novels”, JG Press

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• But no one came. Because no one ever does.

  Thomas Hardy

  Doe

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• If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

  Thomas Hardy

  Stories, Moral, Parables

  Thomas Hardy (2014). “Thomas Hardy: Selected Prose, Volume I”, p.65, Anthem Press

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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!

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Heaven, Suffering

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.179, 谷月社

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• They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

  Thomas Hardy

  Expression, Feelings, Phrases

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.378, e-artnow

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• Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

  Thomas Hardy

  Exhibitions, May, Painful

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Return of the Native”, p.213, Thomas Hardy

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• Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

  Thomas Hardy

  Would Be, Paradise, Ifs

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.2080, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Suits, Lovers, Sin

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.130, e-artnow

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• Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.

  Thomas Hardy

  Done, Hours, Possibility

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1705, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Games, Loving Nature

  Thomas Hardy (2008). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles”, p.48, OUP Oxford

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• He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

  Thomas Hardy

  Feelings, Language, Silent

  "Far from the Madding Crowd". Book by Thomas Hardy, 1874.

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “The Return of the Native”, p.352, Broadview Press

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Kings, Queens, Men

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.484, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Character, Achievement, Done

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.412, Thomas Hardy

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Morning, Children, Winter

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

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• Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

  Thomas Hardy

  Two, Gravitation

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.174, Broadview Press

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• To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dance, Men, Fire

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1696, Delphi Classics

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• Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

  Thomas Hardy

  Three, Sake, Quarters

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.146, Xist Publishing

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