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To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating.

She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

The stage of mental comfort to which they had arrived at this hour was one wherein their souls expanded beyond their skins, and spread their personalities warmly through the room.

Though it may be right to care more for the benefit of the many than for the indulgence of your own single self, when you consider that the many, and duty to them, only exist to you through your own existence, what can be said?

The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful.

December morning—sunny and exceedingly mild—might have regarded Gabriel

The disturbance was as the first floating weed to Columbus—the contemptibly little suggesting possibilities of the infinitely great.

Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.

Within his temples felt thoughts not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations. Thus, to his physical attractiveness was added the attractiveness of mental inaccessibility.

She was in the mood for sounds of every kind now, and strained her ears to catch the faintest, in wayward enmity to her quiet of mind.

Dazzled by brass and scarlet - O, Bathsheba - this is a woman's folly indeed!

The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?

But I wish to be enlightened.' 'Let me caution you against it.' 'Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?' 'Yes, indeed.' She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.

The Fawleys were not made for wedlock: it never seemed to sit well upon us. There's sommat in our blood that won't take kindly to the notion of being bound to do what we do readily enough if not bound. ...

There was a certain scientific practicability even in his love-making, and it here came out excellently. 

there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

Bathsheba, though she had too much understanding to be entirely governed by her womanliness, had too much womanliness to use her understanding to the best advantage.

How did this remarkable reappearance effect itself when he was supposed by many to be at the bottom of the sea?

Well, because it is provokingly wrong. I am a sort of negation of it. You are very philosophical. 'A negation' is profound talking.

O merciful God, have pity; have pity upon my poor baby! she cried. Heap as much anger as you want to upon me, and welcome; but pity the child!

And strange-eyed constellations reign His stars eternally.