“ Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. ”
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
~ Saul Bellow
Associate with the noblest people you can find, read the best books, live with the mighty, but learn to be happy alone.
The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...