“Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.”
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“It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.”
“Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.”
“Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”
“If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.”
“For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.”