And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.
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Thomas Hardy quotes & passages
2 passages by Thomas Hardy, from Far from the Madding Crowd. Thomas Hardy died in 1928, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other’s character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality. This good-fellowship—camaraderie—usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labours, but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstance permits its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death—that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, beside which the passion usually called by the name is evanescent as steam.
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