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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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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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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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I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find that weighing vegetables, passing the time of day wit...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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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

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Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the temporal fixtures of the mind awake. I stretched luxuri...more