"Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea."
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"But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole."
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"A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time."
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"Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench."
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"Ask the young. They know everything."
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"The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier."
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"Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future."
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"O aching time! O moments big as years!"
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"Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood."
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"In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present."
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"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."
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"We die only once, and for such a long time."
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"The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way."
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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"
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"The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive."
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"Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred."
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"Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal."
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"The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last."
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"Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves."
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"There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time."
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