A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

—Thomas Hardy

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About Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist, poet and architect. 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...

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

—Thomas Hardy

Some folk want their luck buttered.

—Thomas Hardy

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

—Thomas Hardy

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

Fear is the mother of foresight.

—Thomas Hardy

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It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.

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Love is such a slippery thing.

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Love the giver more than the gift.

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

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Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street and there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and sensual and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually fall in love, and in those moments, you can actually know the taste of her kiss, the feel of her skin against yours, the sound of her laugh, how she'll look at you and make you whole. And then she's gone, and in the five seconds afterward, you mourn her loss with more sadness than you'll ever admit to.

—Jonathan Tropper

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