Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Thomas Hardy
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Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

By Thomas Hardy

The flowers in the bride’s hand are sadly like the garland which decked the heifers of sacrifice in old times!

By Thomas Hardy

It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.

By Thomas Hardy

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

By Thomas Hardy

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

By Thomas Hardy

Ne bâtissez pas trop sur de belles promesses, surtout si vous avez déjà été déçu une fois.

By Thomas Hardy -1874

Tu es la joie de mon âme, mon bonheur serait de t'avoir pour femme.

By Thomas Hardy -1878
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