“As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) English dramatist, poet, and translator
Epilogue to Translations; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.”
Source: The Story of the Lost Child
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