“No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder book The Long Winter
Source: The Long Winter
“Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle”
— Michael Ondaatje, book The English Patient
Source: The English Patient
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