A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis

"Novalis" was the pseudonym of "Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg" (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), a poet, author, and philosopher of early German Romanticism.
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