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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute i...more

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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can ...more

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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.