Grand illnesses are supposed to be life-clarifying. Instead, I knew I was going to die—but I’d known that before.
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
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“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
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“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
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