"The longer I live, the more I feel that the simplest formula for the constancy of my fate is: on a lost watch."

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Julius Bahnsen, quoted by Harry Slochower in Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881 (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 372