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"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour."
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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
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"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year."

"The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them."

"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me."

"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."

"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior."
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