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Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

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Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us — what happens with the rest?

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I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

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I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witless bellowing of the barracks yard and the witty chatter of the yes-men. I want to hear the rustling of the organ, this deluge of ethereal notes. I need it against the shrill farce of marches.

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Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!

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To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

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We live here and now. Everything before and in other places is past. Mostly forgotten. What could, what should be done with all the time that lies ahead of us, open and unshaped, feather-light in its freedom and lead-heavy in its uncertainty? Is it a wish? Dream-like and nostalgic, to stand once again at that point in life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made us who we are?

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