Marvelous
"What are we? What is the future? What is the past? What magic fluid envelops us and hides from us the things it is most important for us to know? We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous."
-Napoléon Bonaparte,
"Napoleon: In His Own Words" (1916),
edited by Jules Bertaut, as translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes