“Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.”
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“In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure
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