Mystery is the only life of the soul.

Celine



The past is not dead, it is not even past

William Faulkner



The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Nabokov



One should count each day a separate life.

Marcus Aurelius



Every act that has no heart will be found out in the end

Cormack McCarthy



Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom and a dream

The Lotus Sutra



Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs

Dao De Ching

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But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house

Mark 6:4



Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards

Soren Kierkegaard



The best things cannot be told. The second best are misunderstood. The third best are what we talk about.

Heinrich Zimmer via Joseph Campbell

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We have art that we not perish by the truth

FN