“If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.”
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Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
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“If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.”
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“Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.”
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“Love lives on propinquity, but dies on contact.”
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“A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.”
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“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”
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“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.”
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“There is a good deal too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
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“That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.”
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“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”
“At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's m...”
“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.”
“I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these wo...”
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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 woma...”
“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
“Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which...”
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“So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”
“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!”
“You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.”
“If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.”
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
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