Entering and Leaving Existence

 Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it, and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished. Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations. Book 6.


Image: Scene of infant’s first bath on marble sarcophagus, Roman c. 100 CE at the Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome, Italy courtesy of Maureen Carroll.

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