“Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.”
Source: Titus Groan
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English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911–1968Related quotes
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Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
III, 10
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book III
Context: Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
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When I wander away with Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)