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"And something dawned on her. All the pain, all the vain longing, all the disappointed hope, all the anxiety and privation, the sudden numbing blows that result in years going by before one understands what happened - all this was knowledge of life."

"Hope, the untiring, again put out surface roots into nowhere, in spite of everything. The pain could not go on forever, nor did it. This evening she seemed to recognize that everything comes to an end, even pain. It burns itself out finally. One dies of it, or it passes out of one's system like an ache that is over. All that is left is a calcification in the mind, a hard scar, that cannot be affected again."

"Money in your pocket makes your step light. It is a sort of credential, giving one again the right to exist and look people in the eyes, to do things that increases one's well being and self-respect: to ask about prices, choose foodstuffs, take them home and eat them, pay debts, smarten oneself up."