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Elizabeth Harrower

You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can’t admire him because of them.

poverty, tragedy

Elizabeth Harrower

So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make the injured one a better person?

adversity, poverty, privilege

Elizabeth Harrower

Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one’s self.