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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
To understand all is to forgive all.”
to know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
The dinner table was our battlefield.
I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living.
I recognized her at once; I could not have failed to do so.
“There’s something chemical between them” was used to explain the over-mastering hate or love of any two people.
“why bring God into everything?”
“Look at me. I have done my share. I am beautiful. It is something quite out of the ordinary, this beauty of mine. I am made for delight. But what do I get out of it? Where is my reward?”
“What can I do with roses on a day like this?” “Smell them.”
‘My friend, you need a missionary for yourself,’
Need I reproach myself if sometimes I was taken by the vision?
