What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of [her] little life by [she] who interests [her] heart in everything.
~ Laurence Sterne in A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY
If I knew for certain that I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.