Far from the Madding Crowd Quotes

“I shall do one thing in this life—one thing certain—that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man; but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek. Where there is much bias there must be some narrowness, and love, though added emotion, is...”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“Sanguine by nature, Troy had a power of eluding grief by simply adjourning it. He could put off the consideration of any particular spectre till the matter had become old and softened by time.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“even the most timid women sometimes acquire a relish for the dreadful when that is amalgamated with a little triumph”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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