“The only guarantee we are given when we are born is that we will die.”
“There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.”
“Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.”
“We are born and then we die. And in between lies only this strange darkness that we can’t break.”
“We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born.”
“We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”