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“Remember the day of your death. See what the death of your body

will be like. Let your spirit be heavy, take pains, condemn the vanity

of the world, so as to be able to live always in the peace

you have in view without weakening.”

—Abba Evagrios, “The Apophthegmata Patrum”

“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”

—Nikos Kazantzakis, “Zorba the Greek”

“A person needs a little madness,

or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”

—Nikos Kazantzakis, “Zorba the Greek”

“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

—Samuel Johnson, “Boswell: Life”

“That we must all die, we always knew;

I wish I had remembered it sooner.”

—Samuel Johnson, “Letter to Sir Joshua Reynolds”