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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

Alan Lightman

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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Feel Love Magical Something
There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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Difference Important Lose Preserve Same Something
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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Borge Distorted Highly Interest Magic Realistic Truth Word
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
And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Become Eventually Go Machine Mindless Unplug
I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Book Instead Read Should Write
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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Body Clock House Keep Mechanical Time Two World
One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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Cell How Live Metaphor One People Phone
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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Build Embrace Frozen Go Kiss Let Lover Place See Shadow Stand
There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Ay Cultural Different Diversity Look Valuable World
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Best Center Go Near Not Say Some Time
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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Amount Art Engineer Fund Same Science Status True
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Go Move Sister We Where World
Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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Different Life Point Reader Singer Something
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Ago Billion Breathed Century Live Only People Two Year
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix

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