(don't you) look back | time goes ever ever on
Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity, and old age have all brought me their thoughts...their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears [my] name.
--Goethe
- it's kinda like...:
busy *scattered* busy

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Jurisprudence, and medicine,
And, help me God, theology,
With fervent zeal through thick and thin.
And here, poor fool, I stand once more,
No wiser than I was before.
They call me Magister, Doctor, no less,
And for some ten years, I would guess,
Through ups and downs and tos and fros
I have led my pupils by the nose —
And see that there is nothing we can know!
— Goethe