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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. EliotBeauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we
should like to stretch out over the whole of time. -Albert Camus

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
-Tolstoy, Leo

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Emerson