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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

Alan Lightman

In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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Corridor Dark Each Fixed Infinite Life Moment Next Prepare Room World
Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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Bet Irrational Rational Scientific Stop
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
I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Fascinate Intersection Long Religion Science Time
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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Appreciation Consider Existence Larger Nature Spiritual Thing
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
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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Book Father Journey Life Process Secret Tell Uncover Woman
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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Computer E-mail Live Merciful Service Summer Talk Telephone
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Ahead Back Broot Look People Skip Time
We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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Ahead Moment Room Spectator Walk
“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
I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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E-mail First Friend Gone Hours Every Many Message Moring Spend Tell Through Too
You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Beauty Feel Grand Grander Harmony Something
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
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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Act Each Impulse Island Judge Own Rather Sincerity World
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Author Law Play Second Spellbound Thermodynamic

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