All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
THOMAS PYNCHONOur history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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