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June 24, 2023 - March 17, 2024
Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come. Certain moths live their whole lives in a day, yet to them that little span of time must seem as long as years and decades do to us. An oak may live three hundred years, a redwood tree three thousand.
In the end a gentle heart may be worth more than pride or valor.
If I look back, I am lost.
“There will be pain.” “Always.” Life is pain, you fool.
Men’s lives have meaning, not their deaths.
There will be more, and worse. These creatures have no sweeter joy in life than jeering at their betters.
It is better to die with honor than to live without it.”
Never ask the baker what went into the pie. Just eat.”
Better to live shamed than die proud,
