I'm sorry for people who make a great to-do about the transitory nature of things and get lost in meditations… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm sorry for people who make a great to-do about the transitory nature of things and get lost in meditations of earthly nothingness. Surely we are here precisely so as to turn what passes into something that endures; but this is possible only if you can appreciate both.

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