If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
Thomas HardyShe was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.
Thomas HardyDon't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?
Thomas HardyClare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze.
Thomas Hardy