a painful thing
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marycatelliIt is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.
― Antonin Sertillanges
― Antonin Sertillanges
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Date: 2020-02-07 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-02-07 11:35 pm (UTC)A sore point, with me
Date: 2020-02-08 02:41 am (UTC)… Poor Mole at last gave up the struggle, and
cried freely and helplessly and openly, now that
he knew it was all over and he had lost what he
could hardly be said to have found…
The Wind in the Willows, “Dulce Domum”
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully
surrendering the things of youth…
- Desiderata
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