Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Jorge Luis Borges
Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student
Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
• Oscar Wilde •