It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of … - Virginia Woolf

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Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

Virginia Woolf

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?. . . What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

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