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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?

Alan Lightman

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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Action Argument Consequence Future Need Uncertain
I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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Down Maybe Minute People Sit Think
It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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Amount Art Engineer Fund Same Science Status True
If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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Character Creation Fiction Infrared Tell Think Wonderful
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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Body Clock House Keep Mechanical Time Two World
We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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Big Conscious Machine Not Now Part Plug
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Ambition Duffer Hold Person Unknowingly
Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
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Book Course Every Fresh Important Look Mention Original World Writer
If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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Ambition Hold Know Person Slowly Suffer
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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Across Course Culture Cut Emotional Experience Language Music
Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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Air Begin Breathe Central Existence Intelligent Like Passage Time
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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Advice Alive All Aunt Come Die Generation Grandparent Great Infinite Offer Relative
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Often See
Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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Care Despite Felt Kinship Nature Oneness Strongly Us
In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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Corridor Dark Each Fixed Infinite Life Moment Next Prepare Room World
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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Death Each Friend Future Part World

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