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No time to linger, contemplate, wonder, feel, backtrack. The soul now has “No Loitering” signs posted all over it.

“Although the content and context of our sorrows and melancholic mournings are different from age to age in person to person, the nature of this sorrow itself is amazingly similar: the quality of grief, the preoccupation with philosophical questions of distressing import (The meaning of life, despair, suicide).