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Too intelligent to be a hero, too frightened to be a coward, he thought.
“By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism”.’
Do you never wonder how a flower knows when it’s time to grow?
man’s strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness,
‘Get rid of your doubts. Yesterday is dead. Past mistakes are like smoke in the breeze. What counts is tomorrow, and every tomorrow
‘You can’t give a man something that isn’t there,’
This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for the people upon it to love one another with great and enduring passion.
I like the cold. It’s like pain – it tells you you’re alive.’
time, the enemy that never tired.
You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable.
He shrugged and did what he always had done when a problem eluded him: forgot about it.
That’s what friends are all about – they are people with whom you can be silent.’
‘All things that live must die,’ said Vintar. ‘Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on – otherwise he is useless.
