Quote of the Day: Why Living Is Inevitably Sad

Benjamin F. Carlson Sep 18, 2010
"The thing we value most of all is youth, which means that life automatically becomes depressing, because life consists, on the whole, of getting old."

--French author Michel Houellebecq in an interview with the Paris Review. [Via The Browser]

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