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Looking back, he saw his own progress toward this hill of elation no longer as a sometimes sordid and always gray decade of worry and failing enthusiasm and failing dreams, years when the moonlight had grown duller in the areaway and the youth had faded out of Olive's face, but as a glorious and triumphant climb over obstacles which he had determinedly surmounted by unconquerable willpower.

"If you've made up your mind to be different from everyone else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate."
From The Curious Case of Benjamin Button