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“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always a tomorrow.”
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“... one's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ... ”
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“Good food is nothing without wine, and our generous use of it as a beverage and as a necessary part of our cookery has much to do with the pleasure of our table.”
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“The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer, or even a man or woman of letters (which is by no means the same thing), is one of those phantasies that surround authorship.”
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“There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.”
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“Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatment will be painful. Let sister, or brother, or friend, tell me that I must never look to be well. When the time approaches that I am to die, let me be told that I am to die, and when.”
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“... I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.”
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“Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.”