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“Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts...”
“Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.”
“Theres been time this whole time. You cant kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.”
“Time did not compose her.”
“there's time for laughing and there's time for crying for hoping for despair for peace for longing a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singingbut more than al...”
“Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did not grow into a noontime. There was never a noon that...”
“So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke ...”
“What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?”
“When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.”
“Were gonna make up for that. Were gonna live a long time together.”
“But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal ...”
“Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.”
“Time has to pass. But sometimes its so goddamn long. Sometimes it just seems to drag and drag and weigh a ton. And hang on you like a monkey. Like its going to suck the blood out of you. Or squeeze...”
“There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that ev...”
“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”
“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
“...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.”
“I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.”
“I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different”
“Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?”
