Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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