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"It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves."
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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!"
"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."
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
"It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."
"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."
"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
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