There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
One should absorb the color of life.
Where your life leads you, you must go
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.