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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose."

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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
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"What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?"

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John Crowley Author
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"Just as a lamp waved in darkness creates a figure of light in the air, which remains for as long as the lamp repeats its motion exactly, so the universe retains its shape by repetition: the universe is Time's body. And how will we perceive this body? And how operate on it?"

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand."

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