This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
(The Revolt in the Desert, 1927)
T. E. Lawrence
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed... I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands... and wrote my will across the sky in stars.
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