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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
Such a man, truly wise, creams off nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not yet known to myself.
I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
This problem is the most difficult and the last to be solved by mankind.