De The Good Soldier de Ford Madox Ford...

"Is there then any terrestrial paradise where, amidst the whispering of the olive-leaves, people can be with whon they like and have what they like and take their ease in shadows and in colness? Or are all men´s lives like the lives of us good people...broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who the devil knows?"