Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his own body?

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in...

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