"Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch herâ€”doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there."

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Thomas Hardy

#Past Quotes #Light Quotes #Long Quotes

“Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.”

Source : Carolyn Wells (1908). “The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909”
“Up off your knees now and shatter the average.”

Source : Song: Le 65isme, 2005
“Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.”
“You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.”
“Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school - you have the parents, the Ministry of Education, the school board, and the teachers - you need all kinds of sets and rules. You're trying to foresee anything that can happen and everything becomes really rigid. They don't want to talk about death because they don't want to overwhelm the children, but that has already happened, so you're not going to overwhelm them more.”
“Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.”
“Emotions are lovely. Even if they fall to the negative for a time. The sun will rise again another day. The sadness perhaps never forgotten, but a new day enjoyed in another way. A way that could not have been but for the sadnessâ€™s existence.”
“My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.”

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