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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
― From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
― From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
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