"The universe is Time's body." — John Crowley

"The universe is Time's body."

— John Crowley

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20 Quotes by John Crowley

John Crowley has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It occurred to him that seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes…
The things that make us happy make us wise.
Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No.…
The further in you go, the bigger it gets.
Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is…
It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different;…
First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo…
Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.
She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into…
God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books…
There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which…
Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much.…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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