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"Sometimes one would almost like to say: what really matters is only the mind. But where can you find a mind without a body?" — Fausto Cercignani
"I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans." — John Wesley, letter to Charles Wesley (1747).
"For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, But bubbles on the rapid stream of time, That rise, and fall, that swell, and are no more, Born, and forgot, ten thousand in an hour?" — Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-1728)