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Quotation from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
“the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns.”
Jude the Obscure, Part Fourth, Ch. I (Project Gutenberg text)
Sue, newly married to Phillotson, tells Jude that her outward role as a wife does not match her inner self.
Citation: "the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns." — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part Fourth, Ch. I (Project Gutenberg text). (id jude-the-obscure-q3)
Portrait: Thomashardy restored, Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain.
