can engage with life and give ourselves to something we find worth doing. The Nightingale epitomizes “insane commitment” to one’s passion. If you are talented and have a zeal for developing and displaying it, there is no way you can fail to get recognition sooner or later. This is not mere inspirational verbiage but a sound practical advice – for success you must have a dream as well as the desire to pursue it relentlessly. The Ugly Duckling underscores the importance of the process of suffering and humiliations, which helps build one’s ultimate persona.

The interpretations are both enlightening and absorbing.

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