Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]

Nought endures but change.

You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.