A quote from Underworld
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A quote from Underworld
“You’ll more quickly find an earthly thing kept from the earth than you will a person cut off from other human beings.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.9.3
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbor.
George Eliot • Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life; The Original & Unabridged 1871–1872 Complete Collection! (Annotated)
Eternity is in love with the creations of time. – William Blake
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.
Steven L. Peck • A Short Stay in Hell
“As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.” —Joseph Campbell