"But knowledge does not protect one. Life is……" — James Salter
"But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun."
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James Salter
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63 Quotes by James Salter
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It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
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I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.
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