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Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.
-Nora Roberts
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Retirement Wasn't A Reward At The End

Nora Roberts
Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.
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The void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the void cannot be. the reasoning was sound, because it denied the void while granting that it could be conceived. in fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. can a chimera, buzzing in the void, devour second intentions? no, because chimeras do not exist, in the void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things - an intended pear does not nourish us. and yet i can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. and the same with the void.
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