Wednesday, October 18, 2017

A Word for Wednesday

"Yet it was in that vale that her sorrow had taken shape, and she did not love it as formerly. 
Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized."

~from Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy~

2 comments:

  1. That's a great quotation!!! And so true.

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    1. Did you end up giving up on Tess? How far did you get?

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