# Quote — Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd

> To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction — every kind of evidence in the logician's list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.

- Author: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md)
- Book: [Far From The Madding Crowd](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/far-from-the-madding-crowd.md)
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> A nice unparticular man.

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