Freedom, Remember, Is Not The Same As

All Life Worth Living Is Difficult, Nobody Promised Us Happiness; It Is Not A Commodity You Have Earned, Or Shall Ever Earn. It Is A By-product Of Brave Living, And It Never Comes In The Form We Expect, Or At The Season We Hoped For, Or As The Result Of Our Planning For It.

All The Old Houses That I Knew When I Was A Child Were Full Of Books, Bought Generation After Generation By Members Of The Family. Nobody Told You To Read This Or Not To Read That.

They Had Both Noticed That A Life Of Dissipation Sometimes Gave To A Face The Look Of Gaunt Suffering Spirituality That A Life Of Asceticism Was Supposed To Give And Quite Often Did Not.

Could She Fall So Low? No, There Were Limits, And She Believed She Still Knew Where Some Of Them Were.

We Do Not Run From The Troubles And Dangers That Are Truly Ours, And It Is Better To Learn What They Are Earlier Than Later, And If We Don't Run From The Others, We Are Fools.