If you are doing things in order to be happy...you're doing them in the wrong order.
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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It is one long adveture, let's continue it!Let's make it as long as possible!
We all just need to be real. That is what will save us.