Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.
Thomas HardyLet me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
Thomas HardyIn making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
Thomas HardyTag: perception delusion
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
Thomas HardyThe business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
Thomas HardyAnd as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will.
Thomas HardySometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [...] Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only--finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember that your nature and you past doings have been kist like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'. [...] I shouldn't mind learning why--why the sun do shine on the just and the unjust alike, [...] but that's what books will not tell me.
Thomas HardyIf Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas HardyTag: poetry
Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
Thomas HardyBut nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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