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I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero


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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.




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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.



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I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.



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