Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
How many great men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?
Flowers for Algernon
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How many great men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?
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