“Always conclude everyday you live; too much unachieved expectations is the root of painful exit.”
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“Perhaps I was expecting too much.”
“Perhaps. We’re all waiting as fast as we can.”
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Source: All Flesh is Grass (1965), Chapter 17 (p. 179)
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As quoted in Foucault's Pendulum (1989) by Umberto Eco, Ch. 7, p. 49; cited to a 1977 Polish edition of Unkempt Thoughts.