Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.”
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Samuel Beckett
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Watt
Part I, p. 50
Watt (1943)
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