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"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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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!"
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."
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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."
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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."
Absence
"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."
Time
"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."
Evil
"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
Illusion
"Writing only leads to more writing."
Writing
"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
Writer
"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."
Man
"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."
Silence
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
Rights
"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
Life
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