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Jude the Obscure

Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster

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“She's never found peace since she left his arms, and never will again till she's as he is now!”

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Tagged: Love, breakup, Heartbreak, pain in love

“Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die…”

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Tagged: Living, Life, Death

“But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”

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Tagged: Dreams, Big Dreams

“Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repai…”

— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Unrequitted, Cruelty, Conscience

“But no one came. Because no one ever does.”

— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, Alone, Truth

“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”

— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com

Tagged: Marriage, Discomfort, Matrimony, Pleasure