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"But at the same time I knew that whatever people say and whatever they put up with and whatever they get away with, love should be simple"

"I want to feel that the world is hard enough to withstand knocks as well as to inflict them"

"Death too can be a woman, with a skull, misleadingly handsome. Death can menace the mother with the child, can invade the comfortable dwelling of the merchant, can interrupt the miser counting his gold or the scholar in his study; can waylay the bridegroom and his bride; can attend the wedding feast. Death, wearing crown, his bony feet on a globe, holds a glass inscribed with the words, The mirror that flatters not"