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“Tess was the merest stray phenomenon to Angel Clare as yet - a rosy warming apparition which had only just acquired the attribute of persistence in his consciousness”
Just this sentence is worth million stars!

“it was impossible for even an eneny to feel otherwise on looking at Tess as she sat there, with her Alover-like mouth and large tender eyes, neither black nor blue nor grey nor violet rather all those shades together, and a hundred others, which could be seen if one looked into their irises - shade behind shade - tint beyond tint - around pupils that had no bottom”
Oh how i love classics 😭

I can already see myself throwing this book to the wall in anger