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From Quotes by Alan Lightman
- With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive…
- In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without…
- We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if…
- All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
- Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other…
- In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.…
- And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let…
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