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Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

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There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to acco...more

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Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than whe...more

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Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahea...more

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There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

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And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go.

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Relationship Time to Aloneness." Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, p...more

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It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? For these are the last remaining members of a race t...more

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It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but wh...more

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Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.

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I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and wha...more

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Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.

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Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem...more

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It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.""And memory.""Yes, memor...more

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Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat o...more