They were the least morbid of peoples, and accepted the gift of life unquestionably, as axiomatic. To them it was a thing inevitable, entailed on man, a usufruct, beyond control. Suicide was a thing impossible, and death no grief. (CH5).
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self-restraint. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness (5).
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