“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.”
― Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Classic Collection
― Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Classic Collection
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― 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?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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