Frases de Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy foi um novelista e poeta inglês. Autor de obras de grande importância, conhecido pelo pessimismo radical que caracteriza os seus romances.

De uma família de classe média, filho de um próspero construtor civil, passou sua infância no campo. Estudou arquitetura e trabalhou na restauração de edifícios antigos, principalmente igrejas, enquanto escrevia poemas que só publicaria no fim da vida, quando se revelou um extraordinário poeta. No seu período de maturidade , escreveu obras que se tornaram clássicos da literatura inglesa. Também foi um brilhante contista, que traçou perfis psicológicos antitéticos, portadores e conscientes de seus desejos sexuais e de sua própria opressão pela sociedade. O estilo prosaico e objetivo da sua linguagem, cuja temática voltava-se para a velhice, o amor e a morte, influiu na reação anti-romântica. Por tudo isso, foi considerado o "último dos grandes vitorianos".

Hardy casou-se com Emma Lavinia Gifford em 1874. Após a morte da esposa, em 1912, casou-se com Florence Emily Dugdale, autora de livros infantis. Morreu de causas naturais aos 87 anos. Ele está enterrado na Abadia de Westminster, com a excepção do seu coração, que está enterrado em Stinsford no condado de Dorset, próximo de Dorchester. Wikipedia

✵ 2. Junho 1840 – 11. Janeiro 1928

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The Return of the Native

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The Return of the Native

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Thomas Hardy Frases famosas

“A felicidade não depende do que nos falta, mas do bom uso do que temos.”

Variante: A felicidade não depende do que nos falta, mas sim do bom uso do que temos."

Thomas Hardy

“Embora muita coisa seja estranha demais para se acreditar, nada é estranho demais que não possa ter acontecido.”

“As pessoas que possuem alguma força de carácter carregam consigo, como os planetas, a sua atmosfera nas suas órbitas.”

Thomas Hardy livro The Return of the Native

Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits <br class="br">The return of the native‎ - Página 30 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=xYXkUI37hkAC&pg=PA30, de Thomas Hardy - Publicado por Forgotten Books, 1880, ISBN 1606801325, 9781606801321

“Não faça nenhuma coisa imoral por razões morais.”

“É magnífico ouvir o silêncio daquele homem.”

Fonte: "Sob a Arvore do Verde Bosque"

“É muito mais doce imaginar que estamos perdoados, do que pensar que não pecámos.”

Thomas Hardy frases e citações

“A medida da vida deveria ser proporcional à intensidade da experiência mais do que à sua duração.”

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“Mas seus sonhos eram tão gigantescos quanto seus arredores eram pequenos.”

“A verdadeira história de um ser não está naquilo que fez, mas naquilo que pretendeu fazer.”

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“Ultimamente, tenho sentido cada vez mais que meu modo de vida atual é ruim em todos os aspectos.”

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“Um amante sem indiscrição não é amante de forma alguma”

Thomas Hardy: Frases em inglês

“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”

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Thomas Hardy livro Far from the Madding Crowd

Fonte: Far from the Madding Crowd

“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

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Thomas Hardy livro The Mayor of Casterbridge

Fonte: The Mayor of Casterbridge

“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”

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Fonte: The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy

“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”

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Variante: When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Fonte: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

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Fonte: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…”

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Fonte: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”

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Thomas Hardy livro The Return of the Native

Fonte: The Return of the Native

“If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”

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Fonte: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”

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Fonte: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”

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Fonte: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“All romances end at marriage.”

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Thomas Hardy livro Far from the Madding Crowd

Fonte: Far from the Madding Crowd

“She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.”

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Thomas Hardy livro The Return of the Native

Fonte: The Return of the Native

“Her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more. And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

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Thomas Hardy livro The Mayor of Casterbridge

Fonte: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Ch. 45 (last lines)

“To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue. The subtle beauties of the heath were lost to Eustacia; she only caught its vapours. An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.”

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Thomas Hardy livro The Return of the Native

Bk. I, ch. 7
The Return of the Native (1878)

“I seem but a dead man held on end
To sink down soon…. O you could not know
That such swift fleeing
No soul foreseeing —
Not even I — would undo me so!”

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" The Going http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/2716" (1912), lines 38-42, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)

“A well proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity.”

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Thomas Hardy livro The Return of the Native

Bk. III, ch. 2
The Return of the Native (1878)

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”

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Thomas Hardy livro Far from the Madding Crowd

Variante: They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
Fonte: Far from the Madding Crowd

“Only a man harrowing clods
In a slow silent walk
With an old horse that stumbles and nods
Half asleep as they stalk.”

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" In Time of 'The Breaking Of Nations'" http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/poems/breaking.html (1915), lines 1-12, from Moments of Vision (1917); the title is derived from lines of Jeremiah 51:20: "Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations." <br class="br">Contexto: p>Only a man harrowing clods<br>In a slow silent walk<br>With an old horse that stumbles and nods<br>Half asleep as they stalk.Only thin smoke without flame<br>From the heaps of couch-grass;<br>Yet this will go onward the same<br>Though Dynasties pass.Yonder a maid and her wight<br>Come whispering by:<br>War's annals will cloud into night<br>Ere their story die.</p

“A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.”

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Thomas Hardy livro The Hand of Ethelberta

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 20

“War's annals will cloud into night
Ere their story die.”

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" In Time of 'The Breaking Of Nations'" http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/poems/breaking.html (1915), lines 1-12, from Moments of Vision (1917); the title is derived from lines of Jeremiah 51:20: "Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations." <br class="br">Contexto: p>Only a man harrowing clods<br>In a slow silent walk<br>With an old horse that stumbles and nods<br>Half asleep as they stalk.Only thin smoke without flame<br>From the heaps of couch-grass;<br>Yet this will go onward the same<br>Though Dynasties pass.Yonder a maid and her wight<br>Come whispering by:<br>War's annals will cloud into night<br>Ere their story die.</p

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”

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Thomas Hardy livro Far from the Madding Crowd

Fonte: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 51

“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”

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Thomas Hardy livro Jude the Obscure

Fonte: Jude the Obscure

“Love is a possible strength, in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.”

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Thomas Hardy livro Far from the Madding Crowd

Fonte: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 4

“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”

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Fonte: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!”

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Fonte: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“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 livro Far from the Madding Crowd

Fonte: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 4 (Gabriel Oak, proposing to Bathsheba Everdene)

“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”

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Fonte: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“… our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes”

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Fonte: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.”

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“Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.”

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Thomas Hardy livro Far from the Madding Crowd

Fonte: Far from the Madding Crowd