“…time passes more quickly than man is able to live, and that life is terrible, because everything in it is necessarily doomed to extinction…”
— Milan Kundera “Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead”
Contrary to prevailing beliefs, becoming a sage or a doyenne is not a goal or aspiration, it is a phenomenon. If we seek it we will not find it, if we lay claim to it, we lose it. For if you were to arrive there, castaway by the tempest of life, you would find it a journey in the abstract; a place not found on any map; a still point in time; perhaps a quantum of eternity.
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