"We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone."
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Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Ch. 1 (1974)
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