"Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats."
"Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days."
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Source: Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press
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