"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."

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"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"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."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Time, Moment, World, Stillness

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."

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"Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time."

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"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."

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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

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"The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary."

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"God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?"

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"Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime."

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"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."

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