Thomas Hardy Quotes on Fate
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These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.
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And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. Alien they seemed to be; No mortal eye could see The intimate welding of their later history, Or sign that they were bent By paths coincident On being anon twin halves of one august event, Till the Spinner of the Years Said 'Now!' And each one hears, And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
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I seem but a dead man held on end To sink down soon.... O you could not know That such swift fleeing No soul foreseeing - Not even I - would undo me so!
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She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of Time and Chance except, perhaps, fair play.
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Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I be in Somebody's hand!
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'Justice' was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess. And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength, they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
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What of the Immanent Will and Its designs? It works unconsciously, as heretofore, Eternal artistries in Circumstance.
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Why doth IT so and so, and ever so, This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?