“[W]ith ruined people it is either love or hate:
there is no middle way. The ruined people that we like are those who
desperately have died, and lost their lives because they loved life dearly, and
had that grandeur that makes such people spend prodigally the thing they love
the best, and risk and lose their lives because it is so precious to them, and
die at length because the seeds of life are in them. It is only the people that
love life who die in this way— and these are the ruined people that we like.”—American
novelist Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth (1935)
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