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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
A novel is an impression, not an argument.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
So the two forces were at work here as everywhere, the inherent will to enjoy, and the circumstantial will against enjoyment.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
She had been made to break an accepted social law, but no law known to the environment in which she fancied herself such an anomaly.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind — or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
Moreover she, and Clare also, stood as yet on the debatable land between predilection and love; where no profundities have been reached; no reflections have set in, awkwardly inquiring, "Whither does this new current tend to carry me? What does it mean to my future? How does it stand towards my past?"
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)