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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.

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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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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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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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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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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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