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“Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?”
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“Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the woods, where there were no flowers and no people.”
― Kokoro
― Kokoro
“No one dies except on his own day. You are throwing away none of your own time; for what you leave behind does not belong to you.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So maybe, perhaps, he means there aren't many 'human beings' left to look, see, and understand well enough for one to ask and one to give. Everyone busy, running, jumping, there's no time to study one another. But I guess that's bilge and hogwash, slop and sentiment.”
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