It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, but for how well we can endure loneliness.

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Out of Africa. Directed by Sydney Pollack, Mirage Enterprises, 1985.

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