For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
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To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
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There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
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