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Tess Quotes

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 Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.466, Thomas Hardy

No one can be free unless he is independent.

Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.118, Rowman & Littlefield

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.65, Broadview Press

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.360, Thomas Hardy

Luminous, unfearful; high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.475, New Directions Publishing

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

Thomas Hardy (1892). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.95, Diversion Books

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

Bless thy simplicity, Tess

Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.47, Broadview Press