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"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
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"From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star."

"The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."

"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."

"The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face."

"We only pass everything by like a transposition of air."

"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."

"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."

"Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow."

"They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion."
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"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success."

"Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain."

"Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true."
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