our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.
It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.
it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.
things never seem as bad as they are.
one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.
It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.