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Quote by Andre Dubus
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a mo

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. – Andre Dubus

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