“[Y]ou have to save yourself before you can save anyone else.”
Philipp Meyer book American Rust
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“One has to know how to swim just well enough to avoid having to save anyone else.”
Enrique Vila-Matas (2011) Never Any End to Paris, Translated by Anne McLean. p. 45
The narrator quoting his mother.
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