“What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?”
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“What’s worst: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?”
“And she's alive, so alive that even the sun wants a piece of her, and that's what hurts most of all. That someone so alive could possibly be dying. And worse, that as she dies, we all seem to be dying too, somehow, especially Mum.”
“Everyone is born a king; some people die in exile”
“The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it.”
“That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.”