My life appeared to me as unnatural, uncertain and incredible as the design on the pencase I am using at this moment. It seems that a painter who has been possessed, perhaps a perfectionist, has painted the cover of this pencase. Often, when I look at this design, it seems familiar; perhaps it is because of this design that I write or perhaps this design makes me write. The Blind Owl
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. Man's Search For Meaning
Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued; and scarcity, even in the case of what is bad, confers a certain value. Don Quixote
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other. Don Quixote
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