![Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]](/assets/img/quote-photos/nothing-endures-except-change-nothing-is-constant-except-death-every-heartbeat.jpg)
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