Quotes from Thomas Hardy

Gledaju?i samo kakva Tessa nije, on nije opazio kakva ona jest, te je zaboravio da nepotpuno može biti ljepše nego ?itavo.

Had she perceived this meeting's import, she might have asked why she was doomed to be seen and coveted that day by the wrong man and not by some other man, the right and desired one in all respects - as nearly as humanity can supply the right and desired; yet to him who amongst her acquaintance might have approximated to this kind, she was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

a subtlist in emotions, he cultivated as under glasses strange and mournful pleasures that he would not willingly let die just at present. To show any forwardness in suggesting a modus vivendi to Grace would be to put an end to these exotics. To be the vassal of her sweet will for a time, he demanded no more, and found solace in the contemplation of the soft miseries she caused him.

His experience of women was great enough for him to be aware that the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative;

Credevo, Angel, che tu mi amassi... amassi me, per quello che sono. Se sono io che tu ami, come puoi guardarmi e parlare così? Tutto ciò mi fa paura! Ho cominciato ad amarti e ti amo, ti amerò per sempre... qualsiasi disgrazia dovesse accadere, qualsiasi cambiamento, perché tu sei proprio tu; non chiedo altro. E allora tu, che sei mio marito, come puoi cessare d'amarmi?»

Her love was entire as a child's, and though warm as summer it was as fresh as spring.

What I meant to tell you was only this', she said eagerly, and yet half-conscious of the absurdity of the position she had made for herself: 'that nobody has got me yet as a sweetheart, instead of my having a dozen as my aunt said; I hate to be thought men's property in that way_ though possibly I shall be to be had some day Bathsheba Everdene

And probably the half-unconscious rhapsody was a Fetichistic utterance in a Monotheistic falsetto; women whose chief companions are the forms and forces of outdoor Nature retain in their souls far more of the Pagan fantasy of their remote forefathers than of the systemized religion taught their race at later date.

There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her saddest self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane.

Next day the weather was bad, but she trudged on, the honesty, directness, and impartiality of elemental enmity disconcerting her but little.

Let us toss as men do

And it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary. She knew how to hit a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty. It is then that the plight of being alive becomes attenuated to it's least possible dimensions.

Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, and history of geography.

Dick wondered how it was that when people were married they could be so blind to romance; and was quite certain that if he ever took to wife that dear impossible Fancy, he and she would never be so dreadfully practical and undemonstrative of the Passion as his father and mother were. The most extraordinary thing was, that all the fathers and mothers he knew were just as undemonstrative as his own.

He was a selfish customer, always thinking less of what he was going to do than of what he was going to gain by his doings.

whilst her chief plan for relieving herself of her diurnal labours lay in postponing them

And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in.

Distance belongs to it, slyness belongs to it, quarest things on earth belongs to it. There, 'tmay as well come early as late s'far as I know. The sooner begun, the sooner over; for come it will.

Estava no período mais brilhante do crescimento masculino, com seus intelectos e emoções claramente separadas. O tempo no qual a influência da juventude indiscriminadamente se misturava à impulsividade havia passado, e ainda não havia chegado à fase em que elas se uniam novamente, pela ingerência de uma esposa ou da família. Resumindo, estava com vinte e oito anos e solteiro.

É uma moça muito bonita", disse ele a Oak. "Mas tem seus defeitos", comentou Gabriel. ââ'¬Å"É verdade, fazendeiro." "E o maior deles é — bem, o de sempre." "Regatear? Sim, é mesmo." "Ah, não." "O que é, então?" Gabriel, talvez um pouco ressentido pela indiferença da viajante, olhou para onde havia testemunhado a atuação dela pela cerca e disse: "Vaidade.

Yes: there; wives be such a provoking class o' society, because though they be never right, they be never more than half wrong.

Én csak egyvalamit fogok tenni ebben az életben... de azt biztosan... szeretni magát, vágyakozni maga után, akarni magát, míg meg nem halok.

Als er een weg is naar het Betere, vraagt dat om een onbelemmerde blik op het Ergste.

They are simple folk. Like beasts in a field, they are fascinated when a peacock lives amongst them.