“The years are too short, the days are too long.”
Joseph Heller book Something Happened
Something Happened (1974)
“The days are long, but the years are short.”
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
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