A quote from A Severe Mercy
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A quote from A Severe Mercy
"We waste years by not wanting to waste hours"
- Amos Tversky
When we are disappointed by a pleasure which we have been expecting and which comes, the disappointment is be. cause we were expecting the future. And as soon as it is there, it is the present. We want the future to be there with. out ceasing to be future. This is an absurdity of which eternity alone is the cure.
The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything lasts forever, and, although nothing does, we continue inside that dream.