/lit/ - Literature

>WHEN CHRIST HARROWED HELL, the Just under the old law — Abel, Enoch, Noah — mistrusted his teaching and made no answer to his call. They took him for an emissary of the Tempter whose schemes they feared. Only Cain and those of his race adhered to such doctrine, or professed to, and followed him out of hell. Such was the doctrine of Marcion. “The wicked prosper,” that old objection to the notion of a
merciful or at least honorable Creator — who consolidated it better than this heresiarch? Who else so acutely perceived its invincibility?
really makes you think..

You don't "gain wisdom". You only confirm what you've known instinctively already.
>What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification

>This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this, and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.