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We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
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I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.
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