Tal Majlin
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“Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“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.”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
― The Portrait of a Lady
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