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• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life.
  But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid....
• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. -- Don Marqui
• Reality is an obstacle to hallucination.
• Reality's the only obstacle to happiness.
• Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. -- Ken Hakuta