ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says ‘I love you!’ all his ugliness fades fast– But I remain the same, up to the last! ROXANE: I have marred your life–I, I! CYRANO: You blessed my life! Never on me had rested woman’s love. My mother even could not find me fair: I had no sister; and, when grown a man, I feared the mistress who would mock at me. But I have had your friendship–grace to you A woman’s charm has passed across my path.

The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow.

Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one’s neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won’t, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so.

People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.