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"Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer."
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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!"
"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."
"Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in that fact, one day before my birthday will come, one day before I will finish... (So far one day is popular... that's a fact called itself zipf law... )...Call it how you want, but for my it's zipfy law!"
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"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."
"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."
"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."
"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."
"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."
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