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• This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

  Thomas Hardy

  Thinking, Alive, Serious

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.151, Thomas Hardy

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• It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

  Thomas Hardy

  Beautiful, Sweet, Eye

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Works of Hardy”, p.71, 谷月社

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• Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

  Thomas Hardy

  Strong Women, Self, Practice

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• You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!

  Thomas Hardy

  Thinking, Heaven, Black

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.374, Thomas Hardy

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• - the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

  Thomas Hardy

  Girl, Men, Sensitive

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “JUDE THE OBSCURE (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.190, e-artnow

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• Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

  Thomas Hardy

  Fate, Indulge In, Looks

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

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• But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

  Thomas Hardy

  Wish, Want, Fancy

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, p.120, Thomas Hardy

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• The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

  Thomas Hardy

  Tone, Alive, Mouths

  Thomas Hardy (2014). “Hardy: Poems”, p.31, Everyman's Library

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• There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.

  Thomas Hardy

  Disappointment, Loss, Desire

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.

  Thomas Hardy

  Often Is, Giving, Bishops

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.4103, Delphi Classics

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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'.

  Thomas Hardy

  Book, Past, Long

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.158, Diversion Books

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• Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

  Thomas Hardy

  Fate, Men, Doe

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.28, 谷月社

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• You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

  Thomas Hardy

  Believe, Childhood, Half

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• The social mould 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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stars, Real, Passion

  Jude the Obscure pt. 4, ch. 1 (1896)

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• That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.

  Thomas Hardy

  Cells, Littles, Noise

  Thomas Hardy (1906). “The pocket Thomas Hardy, selections from the Wessex novels and poems, made by A.H. Hyatt”

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• Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself.

  Thomas Hardy

  Pain, Grief, Passion

  Thomas Hardy (2008). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles”, p.103, OUP Oxford

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• The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sage, Firsts, Causes

  Thomas Hardy (1999). “Jude the Obscure”, p.19, 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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• 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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• 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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• She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

  Thomas Hardy

  Half, Forgotten, Impression

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Works of Hardy”, p.37, 谷月社

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• He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sweet, Brother, Flower

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.7755, Delphi Classics

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• Done because we are too many.

  Thomas Hardy

  Done

  Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy (2000). “Collected classics”

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• The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Rivers, Numbers

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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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