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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."

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

"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."

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
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"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die."

"How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism."

"No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."

"In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern."

"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth."

"Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many."

"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."
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