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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

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Diogenes Laërtius

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“Bu devir, sıradan insanın en parlak zamanı; duygusuzluğun, bilgisizliğin, tembelliğin, yeteneksizliğin, hazıra konmak isteyen bir kuşağın devridir. Kimse bir şeyin üzerinde durup düşünmüyor. Kendisine bir ülkü edinen çok az. Umutlu birisi çıkıp iki ağaç dikse herkes gülüyor: "Yahu bu ağaç büyüyünceye kadar yaşayacak mısın sen?" Öte yanda iyilik isteyenler, insanlığın bin yıl sonraki geleceğini kendilerine dert ediniyorlar. İnsanları birbirine bağlayan ülkü tümden yitti, kayıplara karıştı. Herkes, yarın sabah çekip gidecekleri bir handaymış gibi yaşıyor. Herkes kendini düşünüyor. kendisi kapabileceği kadar kapsın, geride kalanlar isterse açlıktan, soğuktan ölsün, vız geliyor...”

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Book:The Idiot
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“The Clock on the Morning Lenape Building Must Clocks be circles? Time is not a circle. Suppose the Mother of All Minutes started right here, on the sidewalk in front of the Morning Lenape Building, and the parade of minutes that followed--each of them, say, one inch long-- headed out that way, down Bridge Street. Where would Now be? This minute? Out past the moon? Jupiter? The nearest star? Who came up with minutes, anyway? Who needs them? Name one good thing a minute's ever done. They shorten fun and measure misery. Get rid of them, I say. Down with minutes! And while you're at it--take hours with you too. Don't get me started on them. Clocks--that's the problem. Every clock is a nest of minutes and hours. Clocks strap us into their shape. Instead of heading for the nearest star, all we do is corkscrew. Clocks lock us into minutes, make Ferris wheel riders of us all, lug us round and round from number to number, dice the time of our lives into tiny bits until the bits are all we know and the only question we care to ask is "What time is it?" As if minutes could tell. As if Arnold could look up at this clock on the Lenape Building and read: 15 Minutes till Found. As if Charlie's time is not forever stuck on Half Past Grace. As if a swarm of stinging minutes waits for Betty Lou to step outside. As if love does not tell all the time the Huffelmeyers need to know.”

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Book:Love, Stargirl
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