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Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
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Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
And everything together, all the voices,
all the destinations, all the wishes,
all the pains, all the joy, all the good and evil,
all that together made up your world.
All that was the river of what was to come,
it was life's music.
But every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.
But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
A beautiful and amiable illusion is that for which the days, annniversaries of an occurrence, that in truth have nothing more than any other day of the year, seem to have with that a particular connection, and that almost a shadow from the past may revive and return in those days, and stand before us.
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
Genius moves within folly, in the sense that is kept afloat there where the madman drowns.
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
There's no hope without fear, or fear without hope.