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Jude the Obscure quotes

Thomas Hardy

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“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” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
“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 licence to receive it.” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
“his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
“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!” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
“You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
“Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
“All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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