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• We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Journal...
• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• To live in expectation, to count on the future or on a simulacrum of the future
  we are so accustomed to it that we have conceived the idea of immortality only out of a need to wait out eternity....
• Good to forgive; Best to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live. -- R. Browning
• It always happens, but we never expect "the unexpected".
• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
• We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. Menande
• We live in a universe of Magick!