“A wise old owl lived in an oak
The more he saw the less he spoke
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?”
―
The more he saw the less he spoke
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?”
―
“Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought
to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment.”
― Meditations
to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment.”
― Meditations
“Strange is the night where black stars rise,
and strange moons circle through the skies,
but stranger still is
lost Carcosa.”
― The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
and strange moons circle through the skies,
but stranger still is
lost Carcosa.”
― The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
“When the longest- and shortest-lived of us dies their loss is precisely equal. For the sole thing of which any of us can be deprived is the present, since this is all we own, and nobody can lose what is not theirs.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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