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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.

Alan Lightman

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.
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Core Idea Kernel Number Vague
The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Being Belief Disbelief Faith Matter
For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Back Brood Doubt Look Movement People Predictable
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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Book Couple Every Like Lot Re-read Reread Some Try Year
In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Baffle Constant Existence Mean Neuron Proud Search Temporary Three Trap
I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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Disparate Essay Guide Important Pick Power Say Seemingly Thought
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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Contemporary Do Intervene God Know Law Long Physical Science Universe Violate Way
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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Down Emotion Move Musical Piano Something World Wrestling
I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Appreciate Book Ideas Person Society
When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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Body Cell Ground Hyperspace Phone Somewhere
Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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Anything Cloud Evaporate Ocean Pure Rain Replenishing
I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Correspondance Enough Some Stay Writer Written
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Often See
Continents of memory had been lost.
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Been Continent Lost Memory
I believe that we need to slow down.
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Believe Down Need Slow

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.

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