Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts

Monday, August 18, 2008

Voltaire in "Candide" wrote:

..there were much greater misfortunes than that of which he complained...

...A hundred times I was upon the point of killing myself; but still I loved life...

...In the different countries which it has been my lot to traverse,...I have taken notice of a vast number of people who held their own existence in abhorrence,...

...I advise you to divert yourself, and prevail upon each passenger to tell his story; and if there be one of them all, that has not cursed his life many a time, that has not frequently looked upon himself as the unhappiest of mortals, I give you to leave to throw me headforemost into the sea...




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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Marilyn Yalom in "A History of the Wife" wrote:

"To be the intimate witness of another person's life is privilege one can fully appreciate only with time."

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