"And nevertheless, when they watched him leave..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.
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“If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.”