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Naval on Philosophy

Smart Friends

CHAPTER

The Present Is All We Have

The present is all we have. There is actually nothing but this moment. No one has ever gone back in time, and no one has ever been able to successfully predict the future. Like all great profound truths, it's all paradoxes. Any two points are infinitely different. Each moment itself slips by so quickly you can't grab it. You're dying and being reborn at every moment. It's up to you whether to forget or remember that everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.

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