“The
real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot
stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of
the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away.
No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things
would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to
the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the
moment fast....Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all
means the one particular moment, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman
or one flower, and make it everlasting.” —Karen Blixen (a.k.a. Isak Dinesen), Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
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