Merve
@mervekiymik
翻译 / Translator
Mütercim Tercüman
Hacettepe Üniversitesi
Türkiye, 1 Şubat 2000
42 okur puanıOcak 2022 tarihinde katıldı
‘ We need to bestir ourselves; life will leave us behind unless we make haste; the days are fleeting by, carried away at a gallop, carrying us with them; we fail to realize the pace at which we are being swept along; here we are making comprehensive plans for the future and generally behaving as if we had all the leisure in the world when there are precipices all around us.’
Things will get thrown at you and things will hit you. Life’s no soft affair. It’s a long road you’ve started on: you can’t but expect to have slips and knocks and falls, and get tired, and openly wish - a lie - for death. At one place you will part from a companion, at another bury one, and be afraid of one at another. These are the kind of things you’ll come up against all along this rugged journey.
To govern was to serve, not to rule. No one used to try out the extent of his power over those to whom he owed that power in the first place.
What is death? Either a transition or an end. I am not afraid of coming to an end, this being the same as never having begun, nor of transition, for I shall never be in confinement quite so cramped anywhere else as I am here.