10 quotes from Thomas Hardy, born on this date in 1840.
- It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
- Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
- The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
- There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
- Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
- When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away.
- Women can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.
- I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
- He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.
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