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    Thomas Hardy
    “Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy
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    Thomas Hardy
    “A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Classic Collection
    tags: strength, woman
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
    tags: happiness, life, suffering
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    Thomas Hardy
    “People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    tags: discomfort, force-of-nature, marriage, matrimony, nature, pleasure, self-deception
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
    "Yes."
    "All like ours?"
    "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
    "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
    "A blighted one.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: stars
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: alec, feelings, strength, tess, women
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    Thomas Hardy
    “But no one came. Because no one ever does.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    tags: depressingly-honest
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    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
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    Thomas Hardy
    “I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave.”
    ― Thomas Hardy
    tags: love, trust
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
    tags: love
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    Thomas Hardy
    “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 you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    tags: craving, cruel, deception, flirting, heartbreaker, heartbroken, love, lying, selfish, sue-bridehead
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    Thomas Hardy
    “If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: truth-telling
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    Thomas Hardy
    “The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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    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, Jude the Obscure
    tags: cold-heart, unrequited-love
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    Thomas Hardy
    “A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.”
    ― thomas hardy
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    Thomas Hardy
    “And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
    -Gabriel Oak”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
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    Thomas Hardy
    “...it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall be that person's lover. There would be a much likelier chance of his doing it if he were told not to love. If the marriage ceremony consisted in an oath and signed contract between the parties to cease loving from that day forward, in consideration of personal possession being given, and to avoid each other's society as much as possible in public, there would be more loving couples than there are now. Fancy the secret meetings between the perjuring husband and wife, the denials of having seen each other, the clambering in at bedroom windows, and the hiding in closets! There'd be little cooling then.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    tags: adultery, ardor, fidelity, love
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    Thomas Hardy
    “This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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