One Lifetime Quotes

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C. JoyBell C.
“I don't understand people who are obsessed with making things last. We don't even last! Don't we all die? But is that what matters? Because I think what matters is that we lived! A boy once asked me, "What if we don't last forever? That's my fear." I told him, "Why would that matter, after we've already lived?”
C. JoyBell C.

Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
“You're given the fruit of one palm tree:
Bear it a basin of clear water.
Don't trouble with the plight of other palms.”
Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets