June 7 is Muammar Gaddafi’s birthday.

From the book by M. Gaddafi “Village, village. Land, land. The suicide of an astronaut and other stories” (Tripoli, 1993, pp. 65-79): “Throughout your entire life, you must resist Death… Death is a man who attacks and never goes on the defensive, even if he is defeated. He is spiteful, sometimes brave, sometimes cowardly. Sometimes, death is defeated and is forced to retreat. It does not win as a result of every attack, as is commonly believed. In how many face-to-face fights has Death become exhausted and, exhausted, retreated! Despite the wounds received in the fight against death, the stubborn opponent never gives in. And this is the superiority of life over death… The correct position is resistance, and running away from Death even abroad will not save you… However, if it has reincarnated as a woman… and we feel it with every cell of our body… then resisting it is unworthy of a man, and one should give in to it at the last moment…».

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