“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
“It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 120
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