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But the trouble is not as you think now, that we have put up obstacles too high for you to jump . . . . It is that we have put up no obstacles at all. The great strength is in you . . .

Source: Out of Africa, pt. 5, ch. 1, 1938.
-- Isak Dinesen, (Apr 17 1885-1962), Danish short-story writer; Her finely crafted stories, set in the past and pervaded with an aura of supernaturalism, incorporate the themes of Eros and dreams.

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