Yumikrum - Matters Of The Heart.
Learn how to repair my heart with threads of reason and regret.
He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed to him.
James Joyce, Dubliners (A Little Cloud).