I wasn’t there. Nor were you. And yet in a way we were, because all the bits that make us were there.

Stephen Fry, Mythos [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Fry Mythos all the bits that make us were there

Consider also:

  1. “Duty and joy go hand in hand. Duty is there so you can continue to pursue your happiness. And joy is there so that you have something real to fight for.”
  2. Bits & Pieces
  3. “no man may be individually happy in a society in which there prevails, as today, turmoil, war, or economic oppression. We are too closely knit together. The pains of one part of society are bound to affect us all, just as the pain of one of our organs affects the harmony of our whole being.”
  4. “I regarded her as a woman, though at the same time she carried within her something that was beyond human.”
  5. “Is that too complicated?”