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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.

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most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

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