In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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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.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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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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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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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.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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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 this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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