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As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.

Source: The Little Virtures, 1962.
-- Natalia Ginzburg, (Jul 14 1916-1991), Italian author; She was the novelist of many family-slanted books, including The City and the House, 1987.

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