Elk nieuw leven dat een mens begint is een voortzetting van het oude leven!
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Niemand kan tweemaal op hetzelfde punt beginnen. Elk experiment dat niet herhaald kan worden, is helemaal geen experiment. Niemand kan met zijn leven experimenteren.
Willem Frederik Hermans: Nooit meer slapen
It's sad but probable that I will learn less during the next century than this one.
Keine Kränze, keine Kerzen, nur Konfetti
And I'm not saying that the effort is a waste of time, but I
Just love you for the things you couldn't change though you tried
It was considered a good thing that there might be a few years in a young man’s or woman’s life where money was not the primary motivation; where he or she could thus be free to pursue other forms of value: say, philosophy, poetry, athletics, sexual experimentation, altered states of consciousness, politics, or the history of Western art. Nowadays it is considered important they should work.
