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“Outcasts always mourn.”
The Ballad of Reading Gaol • Oscar Wilde“After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”
Seagull • Anton Chekhov“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
So Be It; or, The Chips Are Down • Andre Gide“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
Essays and Letters • Leo Tolstoy““For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men’s characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.””
Republic • Plato