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“Never to have been born is best.
Everyone knows that, and a close second,
once you have appeared in this life, is a quick
return, as soon as you can, to where you came from.”
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Everyone knows that, and a close second,
once you have appeared in this life, is a quick
return, as soon as you can, to where you came from.”
―
“I'm not a poet and I'm not a nature lover and I'm not an Anarchist. I am, thank God, absolutely nothing.”
― Amsterdam Stories
― Amsterdam Stories
“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
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