“It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.”

— William Faulkner, book The Sound and the Fury

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“It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.”

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