Some snippets I've copied into my notebook over the past couple of months...
'there's nothing we own that isn't mortal
save talent, the spark in the mind' - Ovid, Letters from Exile
(Initially I read 'mortal' as 'moral' - as if talent were too true a quality to be subject to society's arbitrary standards. Long live talent.)
And some more mortality:
'Photography is the inventory of mortality.' - Susan Sontag, 'Melancholy Objects' in On Photography
