“It’s always difficult to be born. As you know, the bird must make an effort to break out of the egg. Think back and ask: Was the path really that difficult? Merely difficult? Wasn’t it also beautiful? Could you have thought of a more beautiful or easier one?” Demian
In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. Jacob's Room
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. A Woman of No Importance
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