Monday, July 19, 2010

A double bon mot

"It is never too late to be what we might have been."


George Eliot (1819-1880)



"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."


Alexis Carrel (1873-1944)

[A good line - though I discover that Carrel was an odious eugenicist. I'm not sure if he was here thinking of the reformation of individuals or the modification of humankind as a whole through selective breeding and euthanasia. I was thinking of the former.]

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