Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
I have learned how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life. Or from love, either.
"Bit by bit, Downton Abbey is turning into a shallow pop version of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s classic novel, The Leopard (later made into a great film by Luchino Visconti), about an Italian prince who sees his splendid old world melting away around him."