"Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief."
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"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
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"My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face."
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"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am."
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"Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections."
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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."
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"One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!"
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"Speech is of time, silence is of eternity."
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"Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres."
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"Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile."
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"Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time.""
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"Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores."
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"There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world."
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"Time is the greatest remedy for anger."
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"For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place."
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"The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes."
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"Who knows but the world may end tonight"
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"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all."
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"We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that illusion goes. So it appears that the range of the measureable is not the range of the knowable. There are things we can measure, like time, but yet our minds do not grasp their meaning. There are things we cannot measure, like happiness or pain, and yet their meaning is perfectly clear to us."
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"You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time."
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