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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itse...more

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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixt...more

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Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too mu...more

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Now it is time!" then louder, "Time!"; and then so loud it could have shaken the stars; "TIME." The door flew open.

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When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember ...more

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Time is the very lens through which ye see—small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope—something that would otherwise be too big ...more

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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in ...more

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... To be in time means to change.

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For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.