Quote by Thomas Hardy Download Open image ““What at night had been perfect and ideal was by day the more or less defective real.”” — Thomas Hardy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“The thing was, being perfect didn’t mean anything if it wasn’t real.” — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
“Imagination was all very well in the daylight, but it was an uncomfortable thing late at night.” — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“And wasn't it amazing that an imperfection could make a perfect thing even more perfect?” — Sandra Marton Copy Share Image
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“There were always too many hours in the day and never enough in the night.” — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
“Now I understood why I had to prevent the day world from getting real. I saw that my instinct about this was a true… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“What if everything that has occurred in your life could be defined as having been absolutely perfect?” — Catherine Garrett Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
