It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a poet, idealizing it as an artist and by explaining it through science, doubtless making mistakes, but finding ingenious reasons, hidden grace and beauty, unknown charm and mystery in the various phenomena of Nature. God created only coarse beings, full of the germs of disease, who, after a few years of bestial enjoyment, grow old and infirm, with all the ugliness and all the want of power of human decrepitude. Guy De Maupassant
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For more than a year, I lived in a little apartment with my parents and my brother. Before we moved in, my mom and dad had a huge fight. They had been shouting at each other for more than an hour and the argument had left them both exhausted. My mom had lost her temper, slapped my dad and stormed out.

When she came back to collect her belongings, she saw me standing in the hallway with tears rolling down my face. “What’s wrong?” she asked. I didn’t say anything.

I just went into their room and hid under the bed. My parents spent the night in the living room in silence. The next morning, they woke up in a better mood and they looked at each other in a loving way.

They started talking about what had happened and how upset I must have been when they left me alone in that awful place all by myself. When they calmed down enough to make some coffee, they found me under the bed again but this time I was smiling. I told them that it wasn’t so bad being alone under the bed because no one would know that I was there anyway.

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