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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, there is no…
- Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
- There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the…
- Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels…
- For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first…
- Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live…
- Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
- Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have…
- It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that…
- -But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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