Quote by Norman Douglas
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Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? – Norman Douglas

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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. – Norman Douglas

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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, “Economy,” Walden, 1854

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. – Samuel Johnson

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Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. – Louis Céline, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932

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