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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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Personal Development
"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!"
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."
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Personal Development
"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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Personal Development
"The value of time is immeasurable."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable."
Reading
"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
Friendship
"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."
Life
"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."
Time
"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."
Peace
"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city."
Art
"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars."
History
"People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work."
Friendship
"Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words."
Poetry
"The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles."
Beginning
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