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• The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Father, Home, Character

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• In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

  Epictetus

  Friends, Adversity, Prosperity

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Morning, Blessing

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.170, tredition

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• The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

  Indira Gandhi

  Writing, Letters, Communicate

  Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Norman (1985). “Indira Gandhi, letters to an American friend 1950-1984”, Harcourt

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• It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

  Judith Martin

  Advice, Easy, Said

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• Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Unique, Greatness, Class

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.147

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• That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

  Thornton Wilder

  Years, Needs, Impatient

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• Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

  Margaret Atwood

  Found, Dangerous

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.508, Anchor

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• To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Years, Twenties, Lovers

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• Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

  Cathy Ladman

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Sky, Pieces

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• continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Years, Perfect

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• The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

  Doris Lessing

  Art, Towns, Small Town

  Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing (1977). “A proper marriage”

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• It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Borders, Easy

  Doris May Lessing (1991). “Martha Quest”, Plume

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• It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

  Gertrude Stein

  Remember, Conflict, Certain

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.949, e-artnow

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• I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.

  Gertrude Stein

  Thinking, Know How, Knows

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Nuisance, Sometimes, Forget

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.787, e-artnow

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• Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

  Gertrude Stein

  Water, Meadows, Strokes

  Gertrude Stein (2015). “Tender Buttons”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

  Margaret Mead

  Love Is, Sexuality, Monogamy

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• Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Book, Reading, Men

  Richard Henry Stoddard (1903). “Recollections: Personal and Literary”

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• [On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Writing, Choices, Kind

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• Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

  Plutarch

  Philosophy, Talking, People

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

  Plutarch

  Matter

  Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough (1860). “Greek History: From Themistocles to Alexander”, p.76

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• It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

  Agnes Repplier

  Mind, France, Habit

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• it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

  Rebecca West

  Littles, Should, Duty

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• It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hurt, Feelings, Deals

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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