Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy man first.
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No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy man first.
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