"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

Courage, Contradiction, Desire

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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

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"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past, and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."

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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."

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"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."

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