What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did …

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.
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