"Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats."
"I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place."
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Source: Letter to his mother on July 15, 1956. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson, 1997.
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