“You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you did
My heart fly to your service, there resides
to make me slave to it, and for your sake
Am I this patient log-man.”
― The Tempest
The very instant that I saw you did
My heart fly to your service, there resides
to make me slave to it, and for your sake
Am I this patient log-man.”
― The Tempest
“Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?'
'That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
'That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“And so, that’s why I have a need for the characters to really analyze love, discuss it, kill it, destroy it, hurt each other, do all the stuff in that war, in that word-polemic and film-polemic of what life is. And the rest of the stuff doesn’t really interest me. It may interest other people, but I have a one-track mind. That’s all I’m interested in – love. And the lack of it. When it stops. And the pain that’s caused by loss of things that are taken away from us that we really need.”
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“But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
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