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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Cesare Pavese
Past, Reality, Action
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.46, Transaction Publishers
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.