Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.
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Anyway, let me be clear that, when this story is inevitably submitted as evidence at my sanity hearing, this was merely a very vivid and detailed, yet entirely hypothetical, contemplation on how many things in life are like pumpkins.