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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Always wanting another man than your own.