“Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.”
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)
“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.”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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