
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
Mission of the University https://archive.org/details/missionofuniver000orte [ Misión de la Universidad http://www.esi2.us.es/~fabio/mision.pdf
Context: Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. And culture, which is but its interpretation, cannot wait any more than can life itself.
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
2000s, A Challenge to Overcome (November 2007)
“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”
12 April 1834 http://books.google.com/books?id=MpNaAAAAMAAJ&q="We+are+always+getting+ready+to+live+but+never+living"&pg=PA276#v=onepage
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 3.
“Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“I’ll put off readingfor six more years until she turns 18.”