Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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Depression is rage spread thin.
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