why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
George SantayanaThere is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
George SantayanaWe need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
George Santayana