People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite. EPO granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder than you’d ever imagined, in both training and racing

People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite. EPO granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder than you'd ever imagined, in both training and racing

People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite. EPO granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder than you’d ever imagined, in both training and racing. (Daniel Coyle, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs)

There was something else,–something quite undefinable, that gave a singular glow and radiance to the whole countenance, and suggested the burning of a light through alabaster,–a creeping of some subtle fire through the veins which made the fair body seem the mere reflection of some greater fairness within

There was something else,--something quite undefinable, that gave a singular glow and radiance to the whole countenance, and suggested the burning of a light through alabaster,--a creeping of some subtle fire through the veins which made the fair body seem the mere reflection of some greater fairness within

There was something else,–something quite undefinable, that gave a singular glow and radiance to the whole countenance, and suggested the burning of a light through alabaster,–a creeping of some subtle fire through the veins which made the fair body seem the mere reflection of some greater fairness within. (Marie Corelli, The Soul of Lilith)