What’s the use of leaving if it is to return home? What’s the use of starting if you must stop?
Pyrrhus and Cineas, Simone de Beauvoir
The brevity of life lends urgency to the pursuits of desire: our time will end while we continue to seek one unworthy object after another, each the proxy for the unreachable horizon of that which could satisfy us.
The Religion of the Future, Roberto Unger
