The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
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