"Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d’être obligé d’en pleurer"
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - The Barber of Seville
The waste of life lies in the love that we have not been able to give, in power that we have not been able to use, in the selfish prudence that prevented us from taking risks...
Oscar Wilde
I want to give thanks to the divine... For the intimate gifts I do not mention, for music, that mysterious form of time...
L. Borges - Poem of the Gifts