C.s. LewisAnd he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts.
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It was not an easy thing to become a man. Whether you are a child or not, you are already a child. And the whole of life is one continuous struggle with yourself, to be a good boy or a bad boy.
Source: The Great Divorce
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