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• We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Giving, People, Body

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.95, 谷月社

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• I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

  Thomas Hardy

  Flesh, Faces, Rough Times

  "Heredity" l. 1 (1917)

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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, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.

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  Strong, Sex, Passion

  Thomas Hardy (1874). “Far From the Madding Crowd”, p.467, Henry Holt

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• Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

  Thomas Hardy

  Light, Black, Earth

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Return of the Native: Works of Hardy”, p.14, 谷月社

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• That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

  Thomas Hardy

  World, Earth, Cold

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• Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

  Thomas Hardy

  Stars, Sound, Tess

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.65, Broadview Press

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• I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

  Thomas Hardy

  Family, Flesh, Faces

  "Heredity" l. 1 (1917)

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Curves, Nerves, Ease

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.173, Broadview Press

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• Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

  Thomas Hardy

  War, Bars, Crowns

  "The Man He Killed" l. 17 (1909)

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• Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dialect, Beast, Mark

  Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) ch. 20

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• Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.

  Thomas Hardy

  Lonely, Loneliness, Oxen

  Thomas Hardy (2009). “Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Ideas, Color, Intuition

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• War makes rattling good history.

  Thomas Hardy

  Peace, War, Good History

  The Dynasts pt. 1, act 2, sc. 5 (1904)

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• I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sweet a room. And the happy young housewife does not know That the woman beside her was his first choice, Till the fates ordained it could not be so.... Betraying nothing in look or voice The guest sits smiling and sips her tea, And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sweet, Husband, Fate

  Thomas Hardy (1998). “Hardy: Selected Poems”, p.96, Penguin

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• ...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and days! Only days and days? O, the heart of a man! Days and days!' 'But, my dear madam, I had not known you more than a day or two. It was not a full-blown love - it was the merest bud - red, fresh, vivid, but small. It was a colossal passion in embryo. It never returned.

  Thomas Hardy

  Passion, Heart, Men

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3233, Delphi Classics

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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?

  Thomas Hardy

  Soul, Sin, Judgment

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the D'urbervilles”, p.455, Reprint Services Corporation

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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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  Sleep, Eyelashes, Tears

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.90, Diversion Books

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Spirit, Oblivion

  1874 Far from the Madding Crowd, ch.22.

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Passion, Structure, Passing

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.113, Diversion Books

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Husband, Mean, Mind

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.23, 谷月社

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Angel, Men, Starting Up

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.484, Thomas Hardy

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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

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Execution, Hours

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

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• ...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Math, Curves, Lines

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.66, 谷月社

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• Bless thy simplicity, Tess

  Thomas Hardy

  Simplicity, Bless, Tess

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.47, Broadview Press

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