scripture
Psalm 39:4-7
Show me, O LORD, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man's life is but a breath. Selah Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it. But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you.
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For weeks after my last operation [for cancer]- frail and without energy, sleeping ten hours- I looked in my house at all the books I had not read and wept for my inability to read them. Or I looked at great books I had read too quickly in my avidity- telling myself I would return to them later. There is never a later, but for most of my life I have believed in later.
Donald Hall
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