"I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration."
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"The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous."
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"In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits."
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"Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life."
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"I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory."
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"Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration."
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"there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars."
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"A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation."
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"I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally."
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"To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished."
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"The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration."
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"The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives."
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"Dauer in Wechsel. Duration in change."
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"I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended."
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"Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all."
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"6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit."
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