A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too … - William Faulkner

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A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.