Life

Life

Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were loved.

Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were loved.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.

Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Tonight I saw myself in the dark window asthe image of my father, whose lifewas spent like this,thinking of death, to the exclusionof other sensual matters,so in the end that lifewas easy to give up, sinceit contained nothing: evenmy mother's voice couldn't make himchange or turn backas he believedthat once you can't love another human beingyou have no place in the world.

Tonight I saw myself in the dark window asthe image of my father, whose lifewas spent like this,thinking of death, to the exclusionof other sensual matters,so in the end that lifewas easy to give up, sinceit contained nothing: evenmy mother's voice couldn't make himchange or turn backas he believedthat once you can't love another human beingyou have no place in the world.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I was tired of being me.

I was tired of being me.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

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