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"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
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"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
"He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped."
"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."
"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."
"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."
"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."
"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."
"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."
"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die."
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"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment."
"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."
"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree."
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
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