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“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”
― Epictetus

“Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“If she only knew that all of his poems had been written to her and no one else, every single one, even the one to Night, even the one to the Spirit of the Swamp. But that was something she should never know.”
― Knut Hamsun, Victoria

“Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.”
― Marcus Aurelius