The hotel terrace is covered with wilted leaves cast by chestnut trees. A light wind carries them hither and thither. The meaning of life in twenty-seven words.

Addendum (January 17, 2017)

The generation of men is just like that of leaves. The wind scatters one year’s leaves on the ground, but the forest burgeons and puts out others, as the season of spring comes round. So it is with men: one generation grows on, and another is passing away.

From Homer’s The Iliad, translated by Martin Hammond, London: Penguin, 1987, p. 94.