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The Beatles will exist without us.

I can’t change the past, and I don’t think I would. I don’t expect to be understood. I like what I’ve written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I’ve written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn’t do it.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago… I am walking in their alleys, st , ing in their rooms , sheds , workshops, looking in , out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.