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“There is no point in talking about your shortcomings; others willingly do that for you.”

“It isn’t very pleasant to have a hole drilled through you, but you can bear an awful lot when you know that the intentions are good.”

“Should I tell the story from the beginning again? I could but it would be no different.”

“Rudy in a burst of passion exclaimed, ‘The world has no more to give me. An evening like this is a whole life. And this is not the first time that I have felt like this; and then, too, I have thought: ‘Were my life to end now, how good a life it would have been!’ The world is good. This day is over. But a new one will come, and it will be even more beautiful.’”

“If you don’t take anybody’s word for anything, then you never make a mistake.”

“Babette was very angry, which was fortunate, for if she hadn’t been, she would have been very sad and could not have fallen asleep.”

“Happiness is the mother of courage, and Rudy was always courageous.”

“The world was silent, not with the silence of sleep or death, but rather as if Nature were holding her breath because she was about to be photographed.”

“But Annette should never have told such a thing to her dearest friend, for a secret like that is as hard to keep as it is to stop sand from running out of a bag with a hole in it.”

“Rudy did not remain a stranger long; he soon grew roots in house and heart.”