"My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am...

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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
More Thomas Hardy quotes
"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to ...
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"My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
"A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.