![This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.](/assets/img/quote-photos/this-account-of-him-thomas-more-developed-as-i-wrote-what-first-attracted-me-w.jpg)
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