“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were t...”
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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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“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were t...”
“Ma qualcuno potrebbe chiedermi: dove si trovava l'angelo custode di Tess? Esisteva una provvidenza che tutelasse la sua ingenua fiducia? Forse, come quell'altra divinità di cui parlava l'iro...”
“My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a...”
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“When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.”
“New love is brightest, and long love is greatest; but revived love is the tenderest thing known upon earth.”
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“Between himself and her there was that kind of division which is more insurmountable than enmity; for estrangements produced by good judgment will last when those of feeling break down in sm...”
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“Our moods meet in the wrong places.”
“Love begins with a sense of superior discernment.”
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“To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to...”
“I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt about them as most women...”
“It is an ignorant place, except as to the townspeople, artisans, drunkards, and paupers, she said, perverse still at his differing from her. They see life as it is, of course; but few of the...”
“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid...”
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“A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.”
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“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
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“The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
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“You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.”
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“There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.”
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“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
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“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
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“The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.”
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