Friday, November 23, 2007

Jude The Obscure(2) by Thomas Hardy

"Oh, I am not going to be a philosopher any longer! I only see what's under my eyes."

...the satisfaction of being on the brink of a gratified desire.

A contented mind is a continual feast.

"Why didn't I tell him pleasant untruths, instead of half-realities?"

"It was Nature's intention, Nature's law and raison d'etre that we should be joyful in what instincts she afforded us--instincts which civilization had taken upon itself to thwart."

...her intellect played like lambent lightning over conventions and formalities...

"Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!"

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