"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would." ~Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
"If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!" ~Thomas Hardy
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs." ~from Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy (Everyman's Library)
"It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail." ~Thomas Hardy (from "Far from the Madding Crowd")
"Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants." ~Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd from Everyman's Library
"The sky was clear—remarkably clear—and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse." ~Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. " ~Thomas Hardy
“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?” ~Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native from Everyman's Library
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