“I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters, 1929-1932
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