In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. – Andre Breton
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. – Andre Breton
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. – Andre Breton
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man–yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. – Marcus Antonius
Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew. – Marcus Aurelius