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Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

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Memory of the knife will be gone when the flesh is gone.

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It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a sti...more

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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

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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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Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks o...more

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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

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Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of f...more