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January 20, 2012

a respite from death

I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing. And when the man that is brave and true looks death squarely in the face, like some rhino hunters I know, or Belmonte, who is truly brave, it is because they love with sufficient passion to push death out of their minds until it returns, as it does, to all men. And then you must make really good love again.


[ Hemingway ]

Posted by amin at January 20, 2012 11:50 AM