Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
ALAN LIGHTMANThere is a place where time stands still.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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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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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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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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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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