" We shine like those fires and those stars; we sigh like those waves; we suffer like those great ships, which are worn out in ploughing the waves, in obeying the wind which urges them towards an end, as the breath of God blows us towards a port. Everything likes to live, Raoul; and everything is beautiful in living things. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)