O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you…

Thomas Hardy
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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
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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

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