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Ars longa, vita brevis.

羽生善治

 

 

何かに挑戦したら確実に報われるのであれば、

誰でも必ず挑戦するだろう。

 

 

報われないかもしれないところで、

同じ情熱、気力、モチベーションをもって、維持しているのは非常に大変なことであり、

私はそれこそが才能だと思っている。

Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

 

An Extraordinary Man with an Extraordinary Piece in the NYTimes

 

My Own Life


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he-has-terminal-cancer.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
 

 

"I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."

 

 

-- Oliver Sacks