| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 26440 |
| QUOTATION: | AIDS was ... an illness in stages, a very long flight of steps that led assuredly to death, but whose every step represented a unique apprenticeship. It was a disease that gave death time to live and its victims time to die, time to discover time, and in the end to discover life. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Hervé Guibert (1955–1991), French writer. To the Friend who did not Save my Life, ch. 61 (1991). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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