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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.”

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“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

“Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?”

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“Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.”

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

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.”

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Thomas Hardy livre A Pair of Blue Eyes

Source: A Pair of Blue Eyes

“Many… have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

“The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”

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“If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.”

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“It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.”

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“He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“Some folks want their luck buttered.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Le Maire de Casterbridge

Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge

“I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.”

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Thomas Hardy livre The Return of the Native

Source: The Return of the Native

“Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude.
And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they
were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade,
you'll suffer yet!”

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Thomas Hardy livre Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

“Bless thy simplicity, Tess”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

“So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

“It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die…”

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Thomas Hardy livre Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

“You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.”

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Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.”

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Thomas Hardy livre A Pair of Blue Eyes

Source: A Pair of Blue Eyes

“A novel is an impression, not an argument.”

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Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“The doctor says there are such boys springing up amongst us—boys of a sort unknown in the last generation—the outcome of new views of life. They seem to see all its terrors before they are old enough to have staying power to resist them. He says it is the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live.”

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Thomas Hardy livre Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure

“There's reason for ghastliness. Eustacia, you have held my happiness in the hollow of your hand, and like a devil you have dashed it down!”

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Thomas Hardy livre The Return of the Native

Bk. V, ch. 3
The Return of the Native (1878)

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