It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the…

Wendell Berry
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never. ✨ Wendell Berry (2012). The Long-Legged House, p.189, Counterpoint Press
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never. ✨ Wendell Berry (2012). The Long-Legged House, p.189, Counterpoint Press

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