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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

"I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time."

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"I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time."

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

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"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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"If you don't capture the moments, it will be gone forever."

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"Hurry up, before there's no more night left."

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"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."

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"There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break."

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"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."

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"We were the only two people in the entire airport who lost total track of time, for we were consumed by space-time at that present moment. Time was irrelevant to our existence, for we didn't want to exist outside the tight and glorious knots of each other's arms. Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present."

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