you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.
Thomas HardyTags: tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
Thomas HardyTags: tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
Thomas HardyTags: tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?
Thomas HardyTags: tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.
She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Thomas HardyTags: inspirational tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
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