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From Quotes by Thomas Hardy
- There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It…
- Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and…
- If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
- Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
- But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
- The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")
- You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the…
- It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion…
- Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
- Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these…
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