In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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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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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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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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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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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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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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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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