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1 " The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present. "
― Alan Cohen
2 " We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
