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Thomas Hardy, né le 2 juin 1840, mort le 11 janvier 1928, est un poète et écrivain britannique appartenant au courant naturaliste. Auteur devenu aujourd'hui classique, il a tout particulièrement influencé D. H. Lawrence. Il a reçu l'ordre du Mérite en 1910.

Il se considérait lui-même d'abord comme un poète, n'écrivant des romans que pour gagner sa vie. La majorité de son œuvre, qui se déroule essentiellement dans la région fictive du Wessex , dépeint des personnages en lutte contre leurs passions et les circonstances. Sa poésie, publiée après ses cinquante ans, est jugée d'une qualité égale à ses romans, surtout depuis sa relecture par un groupe d'écrivains anglais, The Movement , dans les années 1950 et 1960. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. juin 1840 – 11. janvier 1928
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“The thought of Pascal’s was brought home to him: “A mesure qu‘on a plus d’esprit, on trouve qu’il y a plus d’hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.”

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Pourquoi ne m'avez-vous pas dit qu'il y avait du danger avec les hommes?"
Tess”

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“La femme n'étonne jamais autant son compagnon que par cette étrange capacité qu'elle possède de croire en des cajoleries qu'elle sait fausses - sauf, à dire vrai, quand elle se montre ouvertement sceptique vis-à-vis de remarques qu'elle sait être vraies.”

Thomas Hardy

“Le charme principal, l’unique charme peut-être du visage de la jeune femme était sa mobilité. Quand elle baissait les yeux pour regarder l’enfant, elle devenait jolie et même belle, d’autant que les fauves rayons du couchant, en frappant alors obliquement ses traits, mettaient des transparences délicates sur ses paupières et ses narines, et une flamme sur ses lèvres. Quand, au contraire, elle marchait dans l’ombre de la haie, toute à sa rêverie silencieuse, elle prenait l’expression passive et figée de ceux qui attendent tout du Temps et du Destin, tout sauf un peu de justice. Le premier aspect était l’œuvre de la Nature, le second celui de la civilisation, sans doute.”

Thomas Hardy livre Le Maire de Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy: Citations en anglais

“You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!”

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Thomas Hardy livre Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope….”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail…”

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Thomas Hardy livre Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

“We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”

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Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree

Source: Under the Greenwood Tree

“The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.”

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Thomas Hardy

“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“… she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out
of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a
short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

“To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Return of the Native

“To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings; the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall.”

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Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree

Source: Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), ch. 1

“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.”

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Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree

Source: Under the Greenwood Tree

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