Yangzi

“Shakespeare has Julius Caesar reflect that: Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”
― Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We live today in the era not of the art of dying, but of the art of saving life,”
― Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

“Yet in the case of animals such as cattle, sheep and Sapiens, each with a complex world of sensations and emotions, we have to consider how evolutionary success translates into individual experience. In the following chapters we will see time and again how a dramatic increase in the collective power and ostensible success of our species went hand in hand with much individual suffering.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind