Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good. Book IV
What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well, who had never felt the wings of death on their face every moment—what relationship could exist between them and one like me who has arrived at the end of his rope and who knows that he will pass away gradually and tragically? The Blind Owl
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. Book IV
„It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.“ Narcissus and Goldmund
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