That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were. Robert Browning
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. Friedrich Nietzsche
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work. George Gershwin
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. Henrik Ibsen