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Human beings are difficult.
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The quote presents human beings as difficult in some general sense—perhaps difficult to understand or deal with. It does not explain what makes people difficult, so the statement remains deliberately broad and open to interpretation.
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- The Paris Review, “The Art of Poetry No. 80”
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