Today's quotable quote:

"If this weren't one of the big, universal experiences, James Joyce wouldn't have written 'The Dead' and Henry James wouldn't have spent so many words on this concept of 'the life unlived.' Life is a constant withering of possibilities. Every choice murders a possible future. We could easily be in a state of constant mourning and secret itchy remembrance. But there is an intoxicating fire in the life we have chosen, the doors that are open, the light in the eyes of the person we are with. All we have to do is slow down and look into the fire.

There is no solution, any more than there is a solution to death. This what life is like: This is the poetry of it."

-- Cary Tennis
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