"Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls."
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"In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within the solar system, or with any other portion of space and time. . . . This brings us to a second characteristic of philosophical propositions, namely that they must be a priori. A philosophical proposition must be such as can neither be proved nor disproved by empirical evidence. . . . Philosophy, if what has been said is correct, becomes indistinguishable from logic as that word has now come to be used."
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"Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same."
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"We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?"
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"Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time."
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"At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on."
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"Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever."
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"Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style."
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"Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine."
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"There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve."
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"Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it."
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"There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground."
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"Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it."
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"That time and those people are upon you!"
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"You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?"
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"In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it."
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"It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time."
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"It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time."
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"It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound."
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"One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is."
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