You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each month. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
What connection can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens (in Bleak House )
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