“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“What might have been and and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened...”
― Burnt Norton
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened...”
― Burnt Norton
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