...Reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and expectation in its only comfortable form — that of absolute faith — is practically an imposs… - Thomas Hardy

...reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease...

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary... She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind — or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.

But what between the poor men I won't have, and the rich men who won't have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!