la vida misma es inefable, ineluctable, y sin duda trágica, redimida sólo en la medida en que la redención es posible a través de la risa, que se bur… - Laurence Sterne

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints — without working one — one single miracle with them?

Melek de değiliz; keşke olsak, ama insanlara birer beden giydirilmiştir, ve bizleri hayal güçlerimiz yönetir - ne şenlikli bir şölen.
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Gözler daha zarif bir okşama sağlar ve düş gücümüz üzerinde sözler kadar kolay ifadelendirilemeyen bir şeyler bırakır,-ya da,-bazen,var olanı da yok ederler.

For I can truly say, that from the first hour I drew my breath in it, to this, that i can now scarce draw it at all, for an asthma I got in scating against the wind in Flanders; I have been the continual sport of what the world calls Fortune; and though i will not wrong her by saying, She has ever made me feel the weight of any great or signal evil; yet with all the good temper in the world, I affirm it of her, That in every stage of my life, and at every turn and corner where she could get fairly at me, the ungracious Duchess has pelted me with a set of as pitiful misadventures and cross accidents as ever small Hero sustained.