Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
("Tess of the D'Urbervilles")
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Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.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
Since as a child I used to lie
Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
Never, I own, expected I
That life would all be fair.
Thomas Hardy
The stage of mental comfort to which they had arrived at this hour was one wherein their souls expanded beyond their skins, and spread their personalities warmly through the room.
Thomas Hardy
The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.
Thomas Hardy
Her love was entire as a child's, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.
Thomas Hardy
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