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Black as the pit from pole to pole,
Out of the night that covers me,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
(William Ernest Henley, "Invictus", in "Henley's Book of Verses", 1888)
..........No filme ouve-se ainda: "Aqui começa a nação do arco-íris. Aqui começa a reconciliação.
........Aqui começa o perdão. O perdão liberta a alma". Aqui, "inspiração" é a palavra omnipresente.