Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholem Aleichem

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
-- Alvy Singer in Annie Hall(Woody Allen)

Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course unwittingly, a slave. Because living constantly in the atmosphere of slaves, he became infected through the unconscious with t...heir psychology. No one can shield himself from such an influence.—C.G. Jung, Contributions to Analytical Psychology, 1928

By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down, yea, we wept,
when we remembered Zion.
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