Perhaps to know her would be to cure himself of this unexpected and unauthorized passion.
Thomas HardyIt was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart’s desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven.
Thomas HardyI hate to be what is called a clever girl--there are too many of that sort now!
Thomas HardyPeople say I must be cold–natured—sexless—on account of it. But I won’t have it! Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self–contained in their daily lives.
Thomas HardyWith Sue as companion he could have renounced his ambitions with a smile. Without her it was inevitable that the reaction from the long strain to which he had subjected himself should affect him disastrously.
Thomas HardyIf he had been a woman he must have screamed under the nervous tension which he was now undergoing. But that relief being denied to his virility, he clenched his teeth in misery, bringing lines about his mouth like those in the Laocoön, and corrugations between his brows.
Thomas HardyHe waited day after day, saying that it was perfectly absurd to expect, yet expecting.
Thomas Hardyand when he awoke it was as if he had awakened in hell. It WAS hell—"the hell of conscious failure,
Thomas Hardyand she had altogether the air of a woman clipped and pruned by severe discipline, an under–brightness shining through from the depths which that discipline had not yet been able to reach.
Thomas HardyEvery woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is afterwards recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene, which seems ordained to be her special medium of manifestation throughout all the pages of his memory.
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