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Thomas Hardy

"My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own."

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"My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own."

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"The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain."
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"As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would have made it unable to continue. Their views of the relations of man and woman are limited, as is proved by their expelling me from the school. Their philosophy only recognizes relations based on animal desire. The wide field of strong attachment where desire plays, at least, only a secondary part, is ignored by them-the part of-who is it?-Venus Urania."
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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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"And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man's finer emotions, and her lack of interest in his aspirations."
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"If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do."
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"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."
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"Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony."
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"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it."
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"My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all."
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