Sunday, March 3, 2013

100 Words a Day 202

“Death is Life's one great certainty. On that, the philosophers and I are in agreement. Unlike the philosophers, I have no concern for what happens after. Let others waste time pondering uncertainties, like blind men peering into the ocean depths in the black of night, while I experience the moments I have to their greatest.

Pious men deny their earthly cravings on the vague promises of some eternal bliss, some perfect delight, if only they obey the fetid wheezings of men long turned to gravedust. Why does man sacrifice that which is surely in front of him for the uncertain?”

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