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“I often tried to question AS about those olden days, about the men who surrounded the Empress...But he generally evaded the subject. What's the use of talking about old times? he said, One only tortures himself. One says to himself, "thou wert a young man then, but now thy last teeth have vanished from thy mouth. And thee's no denying it-the good times were good..well, and God be with them”
― Turgenev

“The days are long, but the years are short.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Modern Christians who find Matthew's preoccupation with [Judaism] tedious and even distasteful, should realise that they live in a very different world from that of early Christians, for whom the 'Jewishness' of Jesus and his church was not just a matter of historical interest but an existential concern crying out for answers, answers which Matthew's gospel offered to provide.”
― R.T. France

“The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children.”
― John Williams, Stoner