“I was wrong. I admit it. I believed that there were things which still mattered just because they had mattered once. But I was wrong. Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.”

— William Faulkner , book Absalom, Absalom!

Source: Absalom, Absalom!

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American writer 1897–1962

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