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“and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or perhaps as if to slow the world that was rushing away and seemed to care nothing for the old or the young or rich or poor or dark or pale or he or she. Nothing for their struggles, nothing for their names. Nothing for the living or the dead.”

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”

“If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune…all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.”