“A life postponed too long might never be lived.”
Part 2, Chapter 9 (p. 111)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.”
"The Enormous Womb", p. 96
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
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Is but half-nobly true;
With our laborious hiving
What men call treasure, and the gods call dross,
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Only secure in every one's conniving,
A long account of nothings paid with loss.
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Bias, 5.
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Context: A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.
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