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“Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.”

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Jean de la Bruyere was a French philosopher and moralist, born on August 16, 1645, and died on May 10, 1696. His works have had a profound impact on posterity. more

“One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.”

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.”

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Book:Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes

Source: Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes

“Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.”

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Book:God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of Dune

“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.”

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Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.”

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Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.”

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Book:Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?”

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Book:The claw of the conciliator

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