He saw with sorrow that hers was a life he could step right into and keep working at hard from tonight until death. If he allowed himself to ponder it for a minute, he saw all the world hanging over the girl like the deadfall to a trap, ready to drop and crush.Charles Frazier
About This Quote
The quote says it all. The world is a trap and we are falling. We find ourselves in the same position day after day and we do not know how to climb out of it as we keep falling as one trap after another. The only way to escape this trap is to hold on and never let go. We must work hard at making things better, or we will fall into the same trap again and again.
Source: Cold Mountain
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