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• That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

  Thomas Hardy

  Summer, Autumn, Past

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.245, Thomas Hardy

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• He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Heart, Thinking

  Thomas Hardy (2012). “Jude the Obscure”, p.220, Courier Corporation

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• Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stress, Feelings, Lines

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.130, Xist Publishing

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• To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

  Thomas Hardy

  Loneliness, Desire Love, Long

  Thomas Hardy (2015). “The Return of the Native”, p.68, Xist Publishing

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• O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

  Thomas Hardy

  Pieces, Pity, Tess Of The D Urbervilles

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.466, Thomas Hardy

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• Always wanting another man than your own.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Another Man

  Thomas Hardy (2012). “Jude the Obscure”, p.220, Courier Corporation

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• You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Kissing, Wells

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.624, Delphi Classics

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• Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

  Thomas Hardy

  Kings, Dramatic Life, Life Is

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• It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Rays, Sun

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.81, Xist Publishing

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• When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

  Thomas Hardy

  Struggle, Light, Blue

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.76, Diversion Books

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• It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

  Thomas Hardy

  Husband, Men, Wife

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.127, e-artnow

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• I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

  Thomas Hardy

  Way, Felt

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.81, 谷月社

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• That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

  Thomas Hardy

  Dog, Heart, Loss

  Thomas Hardy (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Courier Dover Publications

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• How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

  Thomas Hardy

  Destiny, Heaven, Done

  Thomas Hardy (2006). “Return of the Native: Easyread Edition”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted." "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?" "A blighted one.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stars, Thinking, Apples

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.30, Xist Publishing

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• Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sex, Men, Suffering

  Thomas Hardy (2006). “Jude the Obscure: Easyread Edition”, p.68, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sky, Flux, Rhythm

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Works of Hardy”, p.328, 谷月社

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• My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

  Thomas Hardy

  Heart, Wicked, Spite

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Matter, Spinning

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.76, Thomas Hardy

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• Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

  Thomas Hardy

  Knowing, Sometimes, Shrinks

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.236, 谷月社

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• She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

  Thomas Hardy

  Passion, Hands, And Love

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1685, Delphi Classics

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• Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

  Thomas Hardy

  Moral, Argument, Poet

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Hand Of Ethelberta”, p.26, Thomas Hardy

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• It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.

  Thomas Hardy

  Powerful, Spring, Moving

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.119, e-artnow

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• We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

  Thomas Hardy

  Communion, Ought

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “JUDE THE OBSCURE (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.307, e-artnow

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• Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.

  Thomas Hardy

  Crush, Errors, Wish

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.23, 谷月社

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