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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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"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."

"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"

"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."

"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."

"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
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