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Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, i ought not to forget that i may be thought to have outlived myself.

-James Madison

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Having Outlived So Many Of My Contemporaries,

James Madison

Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, i ought not to forget that i may be thought to have outlived myself.

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Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. you ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize it, and ought to take it out, you ought to practice it, you ought to apply it. and most of all, you ought to rejoice in it because you have just heard how not to be wretched, miserable you any more but to be a brand new, and forever brand new man or woman.

Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, i believe. he ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. he ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. he ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. he ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

Indeed, i have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. one pays dear for living long.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. we forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-to be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! to receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

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