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‘A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity’
- Yiddish Proverb

Francis Reys' Diary



'We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come nor despair of it as quite certain not to come'
- Epicurus (Letter to Menoeceus)


'That was the effect the first view of Empress of Blandings always had on visiting fanciers. They came, saw, gasped, and went away unhappy, discontented men, ever after to move through life bemused and yearning for they knew not what, like men kissed by goddesses in dreams'
- P.J. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather




'Please sir, Mr. God of Death
Don't make it my turn today,
Not today,
there's fish curry for dinner'

- Bakibab Borkar, Poet Laureate of Goa




‘Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been’
- P.J. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather