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Edith Sitwell

"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself."

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"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself."

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

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"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

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"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

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"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

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"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

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"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

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"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

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"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

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"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

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"I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy."
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"I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art."
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"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
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"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
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"The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention."
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"Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross."
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"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."
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"The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten."
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