A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
ALAN LIGHTMANFranz 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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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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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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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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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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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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