The power of grief to derange the mind has in fact been exhaustively noted.

[...] The True, the Good, the Beautiful. They're just around the corner, in the next corridor; they're in the next book, the one you haven't read, or in the next stack, the one you haven't got to. But you'll get to it someday. And when you do--when you do--

A 43 anni compiuti, William Stoner apprese quello che altri,..., avevano imparato prima: che la persona che amiamo da subito non è quella che amiamo per davvero e che l'amore non è una fine ma un processo attraverso il quale una persona tenta di conoscerne un'altra

A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

He is a man like any other… he will become what he will become, out of the force of his person and the accident of his fate.

Liefde is geen eindpunt, maar een proces, waarin de een probeert de ander te leren kennen.

You mustn't give it up," he said, and his voice took on an urgency that he could not understand. "No matter how hard it will seem sometimes, you mustn't give it up. It's too good for you to give it up. Oh, it's good, there's no doubt of it.

He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.

... un etica che gli imponeva di offrire al mondo tiranno visi sempre inespressivi, rigidi e spenti.

The True, the Good, the Beautiful. "[...] They're just around the corner, in the next corridor; they're in the next book, the one you haven't read, or in the next stack, the one you haven't got to. But you'll get to it someday. And when you do--when you do--

John Williams

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