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Have you noticed, she asked him, how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

Mary Balogh

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Mary Balogh
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
Novelist
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Love does not last forever, then? He asked me the same thing this morning, she said. No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.
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Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.
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But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
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If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
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