I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.More Thomas Hardy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanityMore Thomas Hardy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.More Thomas Hardy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted.More Thomas Hardy quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...More Thomas Hardy quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]