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"'He took his own life' is the phrase; but Adrian also took charge of his own life... How few of us...can say that we have done the same? We muddle along, we let life happen to us, we gradually build up a store of memories. There is a question of accumulation, but not in the sense that Adrian meant, just the simple adding up and adding on of life...there is a difference between addition and increase."
— Jun 25, 2020 09:02PM
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"What had Old Joe Hunt answered when I knowingly claimed that history was the lies of the victors? 'As long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated.' Do we remember that enough when it comes to our private lives?"
— Jun 25, 2020 09:04PM
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"Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end?"
— Jun 25, 2020 08:59PM
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"I survived. "He survived to tell the tale"--that's what people say, don't they? History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious nor defeated.
— Jun 25, 2020 08:58PM
