"I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same."
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Notebook entry, quoted in Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life (2003) by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88.
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Martha Gellhorn
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American war correspondent and novelist. She covered nearly every war during the twentieth century.
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