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“All things that are still to come lie in uncertainty; live straightway!”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
― On the Shortness of Life
― On the Shortness of Life
Ernest’s 2025 Year in Books
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Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Self help, and Nonfiction
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