"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

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"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!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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"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."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"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."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."

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"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."

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"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."

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"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."

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"One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave."

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"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place."

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"Writing only leads to more writing."

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"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

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