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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In…
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There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow…
— Brian Evenson
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One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.
— Nellie Melba
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There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say…
— Benjamin Tucker
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I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty…
— F. Lee Bailey
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We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we…
— Hideo Kojima
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the…
— Alan Lightman
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We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a…
— Albert Camus
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Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.
— Etty Hillesum
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