Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
Thomas HardyClare 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.
Thomas HardyTags: humor
This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
Thomas HardyThere was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.
Thomas HardyDone because we are too many.
Thomas HardyTags: children suicide jude-the-obscure thomas-hardy
If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.
Thomas HardyPeople go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.
Thomas HardyTags: nature marriage self-deception pleasure matrimony discomfort force-of-nature
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
Thomas HardyTags: women
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 HardyBacklock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.
Thomas HardyTags: women
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