“We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams.” The Cherry Orchard

Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp. Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. Beware of Pity

In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man