And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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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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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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Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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