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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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There is a place where time stands still.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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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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Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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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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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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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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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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