“Life continued, the wheel turned, the earth moved, and even death—that delightful biological necessity—was an aspect of life.”

Canto XXXIII, closing lines, as translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
Context: As the geometrician, who endeavours
To square the circle, and discovers not,
By taking thought, the principle he wants,Even such was I at that new apparition;
I wished to see how the image to the circle
Conformed itself, and how it there finds place;But my own wings were not enough for this,
Had it not been that then my mind there smote
A flash of lightning, wherein came its wish. Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy:
But now was turning my desire and will,
Even as a wheel that equally is moved, The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.

Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)

Death of Fr Patrick Rodrigues is ‘Nirvana’ – Bishop Aloysius D’Souza https://www.mangalorean.com/patrick-rodrigues-condolence/ (March 24, 2017)

Section 8 : Suffering and Consolation
Life and Destiny (1913)

Tarkan Q & A, Tarkan Translations, April 10, 2003 http://tarkantr.blogspot.com/2005/05/q.html,

Opium (1929)

http://www.gcci.org/awe/ema_award1198.html

Source: Savonarola (1881), Girolamo Savonarola in Act I, sc. iv; p. 49.