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2002-11-21 12:22:06 ET Life can be magnificent and overwhelming-- that is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger, it would be almost easy to live. ------------------- Neither despair nor joy seems justified before this sky and the shining suffocating heat pouring down from it. ------------------- We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves ------------------- If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ------------------- Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to your skepticism. -------------------- |
