Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility. Either/Or
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. East Of Eden
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. Book II
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." The Analects of Confucius
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