"Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season."
"What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?"
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Source: Bette Lord (1984). “In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson”, HarperCollins Publishers
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