Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. – Mary Wortley Montagu
Its frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You cant assume the responsibility for everything you do –or dont do. – Simone de Beauvoir
