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"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."
"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
"The value of time is immeasurable."
"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well."
"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."
"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about."
"The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy."
"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."
"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."
"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."
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