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Thomas Hardy quotes

English Novelist June 2, 1840 – January 11, 1928

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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love... Thomas Hardy
Don't love too blindly: blindly you will love if you love at all, but a little care is still possible to a well-disciplined heart. May that heart be yours as it was not mine. Cultivate the art of renunciation. Thomas Hardy
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "Love is an utterly bygone, sorry, worn-out, miserable thing..."
Love is an utterly bygone, sorry, worn-out, miserable thing with me- for him or anyone else. Thomas Hardy
Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it. Thomas Hardy
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting outof love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as ashort cut that way, but it has been known to fail. Thomas Hardy
...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and days! Only days and days? O, the heart of a man! Days and days!' 'But, my dear madam, I had not known you more than a day or two. It was not a full-blown love - it was the merest bud - red, fresh, vivid, but small. It was a colossal passion in embryo. It never returned. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness."
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Thomas Hardy
Ideal conception, necessitated by ignorance of the person so imagined, often results in an incipient love, which otherwise would never have existed. Thomas Hardy
Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful. Thomas Hardy
You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman! Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity"
Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity Thomas Hardy
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "What then? Joy-jaunts, impassioned flings, Love and its..."
What then? Joy-jaunts, impassioned flings, Love and its ecstasy, Will always have been great things, great things to me! Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is,..."
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die. Thomas Hardy

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