Lemon Platt

“Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret
et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.
(Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back,
Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn.)”
― Horace, The Epistles of Horace

“The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Jener Kaiser hielt sich beständig die Vergänglichkeit aller Dinge vor, um sie nicht zu wichtig zu nehmen und zwischen ihnen ruhig zu bleiben. Mir scheint umgekehrt alles viel zu viel wert zu sein, als daß es so flüchtig sein dürfte: ich suche nach einer Ewigkeit für jegliches: dürfte man die kostbarsten Salben und Weine ins Meer gießen? – Mein Trost ist, daß alles, was war, ewig ist: – das Meer spült es wieder her.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.”
― Orson Welles