You were nothing to me once, and I was contented; you are now nothing to me again, and how different the second nothing is from the first! Would to G… - Thomas Hardy
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You were nothing to me once, and I was contented; you are now nothing to me again, and how different the second nothing is from the first! Would to God you had never taken me up, since it was only to throw me down!
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy OM (June 2 1840 – January 11 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer and poet.
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The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?
It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of the master-spirits of that time in grotesque; and certainly in the instance of Gothic art there is no disputing the proposition.
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