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If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

Raymond Chandler
Alive, Gentle, Hard
Raymond Chandler (2002). “Playback: A Novel”, p.200, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.