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“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.”
― Far from the Madding Crowd
― Far from the Madding Crowd
“A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.”
― The Return of the Native
― The Return of the Native
“What a way Oak had, she thought, of enduring things. Boldwood, who seemed so much deeper and higher and stronger in feeling than Gabriel, had not yet learnt, any more than she herself, the simple lesson which Oak showed a mastery of by every turn and look he gave—that among the multitude of interests by which he was surrounded, those which affected his personal well-being were not the most absorbing and important in his eyes. Oak meditatively looked upon the horizon of circumstances without any special regard to his own standpoint in the midst. That was how she would wish to be”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
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