January 19, 2008
living is at life’s expense
Death is the condition of your creation, it is a part of you; you are fleeting from your own selves. This being of yours that you enjoy is equally divided between death and life. The first day of your birth leads you toward death as toward life:
The hour which gave us life led to its end. SENECA
Even in birth we die; the end is there from the start. MANILUS
All the time you live you steal from life; living is at life’s expense. The constant work of your life is to build death. You are in death while you are in life; for you are after death when you are no longer in life. Or, if you prefer it this way, you are dead after life; but during life you are dying; and dead affects the dying much more roughly than the dead, and more keenly and essentially.
Montaigne - That To Philosophize Is To Learn To Die
Posted by amin at January 19, 2008 1:53 AM