“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state." Seagull

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better. The Zahir

“Is there anything surprising in one who passes from divine contemplations to the evil state of man, misbehaving himself in a ridiculous manner; if, while his eyes are blinking and before he has become accustomed to the surrounding darkness, he is compelled to fight in courts of law, or in other places, about the images or the shadows of images of justice, and is endeavouring to meet the conceptions of those who have never yet seen absolute justice?” Republic

Mercy often inflicts death. Troades