More from Thomas Hardy

  1. Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man crue…
  2. Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!
  3. Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract …
  4. What of the Immanent Will and Its designs? It works unconsciously, as heretofore, Eternal artistries in Circumstance.
  5. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of th…
  6. Why doth IT so and so, and ever so, This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?
  7. 'Justice' was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess. And the d'Urberville knights a…
  8. A local cult, called Christianity.

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