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Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.122, University of Chicago Press

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.20, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Ernest Hemingway, A. E. Hotchner, Albert J. DeFazio (2005). “Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner”, p.6, University of Missouri Press

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Epictetus (1967). “The Discourses as Reported by Arrian: The Manual, and Fragments”

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1006, Harvard University Press