It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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