Life is made up of a lot of bad things and some good things... is something I heard this weekend. Upon further thought, I think it might be true. Life is tough, an uphill battle. However, I don't think it's as hopeless and terrible as it is portrayed in the book Tess of D'Ubervilles. I am still depressed today after finishing it yesterday. It's a page turner, and has a really strong and interesting female protagonist, but it is REALLY, REALLY, horribly tragic and depressing. If I had known how it would make me feel, I might not have read it. On the other hand, it made me put my own life and blessings into perspective.
“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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