theparisreview: Cowards die many times before their deaths,The...

theparisreview:

Cowards die many times before their deaths,

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

It seems to me most strange that men should fear,

Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.

Nelson Mandela’ s favorite Shakespeare passage. Above, a handwritten draft page from his memoirs. (via)

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