At the age of forty the life you have lived so far, always pro tem, has for the first time become life itself, and this reappraisal swept away all dr… - Karl Ove Knausgård

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At the age of forty the life you have lived so far, always pro tem, has for the first time become life itself, and this reappraisal swept away all dreams, destroyed all your notions that real life, the one that was meant to be, the great deeds you would perform, was somewhere else. When you were forty you realized it was all here, banal everyday life, fully formed, and it always would be unless you did something. Unless you took one last gamble.