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Thomas Hardy

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.

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Thomas Hardy is saying that harshness and suffering are everywhere in both the natural world and human society, and they are unavoidable parts of life. Even if we wanted to escape this reality, it is impossible because cruelty is deeply embedded in how things function.

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