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Chapter 20, page 172 ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman
"Thus to Charles the openness of Sarah's confession- both so open in itself and in the open sunlight - seemed less to present a sharper reality than to offer a glimpse of an ideal world. It was not strange because it was more real, but because it was less real; a mythical world where naked beauty mattered far more than naked truth."
The book is full of little charms like these couple of sentences. It really is amazing. The character Charles is learning about Sarah's life, wherein she fell in love with a married Frenchman and he left, never to return for her. She could never marry him. So instead she married her despair and her shame.
"Thus to Charles the openness of Sarah's confession- both so open in itself and in the open sunlight - seemed less to present a sharper reality than to offer a glimpse of an ideal world. It was not strange because it was more real, but because it was less real; a mythical world where naked beauty mattered far more than naked truth."
The book is full of little charms like these couple of sentences. It really is amazing. The character Charles is learning about Sarah's life, wherein she fell in love with a married Frenchman and he left, never to return for her. She could never marry him. So instead she married her despair and her shame.