"If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world."

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Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

— Jon Krakauer