“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.”

Source: Testament of Youth (1933), Chapter 12 [quoting a 1924 letter]

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English writer 1893–1970

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