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Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

James A. Baldwin
Sweet, Giving, Experience
"Autobiographical Notes" by James A. Baldwin (1952), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), archive.nytimes.com.
Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.