When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

I was ill before I fell ill.

Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.

Reach what you cannot

Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.