Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate June 2, 1840

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Location Stinsford, United Kingdom

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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

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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.

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There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

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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.

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If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

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You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison.

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

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Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?

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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 the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.

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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 what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life.

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