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“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

“But no one came. Because no one ever does.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.

She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Here we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again; In Heaven we part no more.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles