After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

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"As a writer, you should not judge. You should understand."

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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

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