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Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.

Alan Lightman

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
Continents of memory had been lost.
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Been Continent Lost Memory
Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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Authenticity Consciousness Essay Lift Sincerity
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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Alone Everyone Tragedy World
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Ambition Duffer Hold Person Unknowingly
The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Being Belief Disbelief Faith Matter
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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Breathe Character Idea Just Live Mouthpiece Own
At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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Decision Every Fate Infinity Point World
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Each Same Time True Truth
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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Accident History Phenomena Recast Science View
A world with one month is a world of equality.
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Equality Month One Liner World
“Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
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Appointment Body Exist Morning Precisely Think
For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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Dull Habit Memory Only Passion Physical
Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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Decision Event Glance Happen Lose Occur Reality
Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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Body Contain Exquisite Fact Flow Hydrogen Laboratory Oblivious Variable

Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.

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