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“You stand alone upon a height," he said, dreamily, "like one in a dreary land. Behind you all is darkness, before you all is darkness; there is but one small space of light. In that one space is a day. They come, one at a time, from the night of To-morrow, and vanish into the night of Yesterday. "I have thought of the days as men and women, for a woman's day is not at all like a man's. For you, I think, they first were children, with laughing eyes and little, dimpled hands. One at a time, they came out of the darkness, and disappeared into the darkness on the other side. Some brought you flowers or new toys and some brought you childish griefs, but none came empty-handed. Each day laid its gift at your feet and went on. "Some brought their gifts wrapped up, that you might have the surprise of opening them. Many a gift in a bright-hued covering turned out to be far from what you expected when you were opening it. Some of the happiest gifts were hidden in dull coverings you took off slowly, dreading to see the contents. Some days brought many gifts, others only one. "As the days grew older, some brought you laughter; some gave you light and love. Others came with music and pleasure--and some of them brought pain." "Yes," sighed Evelina, "some brought pain." "It is of that," went on the Piper, "that I wished to be speaking. It was one day, was it not, that brought you a long sorrow?" "Yes." "Not more than one? Was it only one day?" "Yes, only one day," "See," said The Piper, gently, "the day came with her gift. You would not let her lay it at your feet and pass on into the darkness of Yesterday. You held her by her grey garments and would not let her go. You kept searching her sad eyes to see whether she did not have further pain for you. Why keep her back from her appointed way? Why not let your days go by?" "The other days," murmured Evelina, "have all been sad." "Yes, and why? You were holding fast to one day--the one that brought you pain. So, with downcast eyes they passed you, and carried their appointed gifts on into Yesterday, where you can never find them again. Even now, the one day you have been holding is struggling to free herself from the chains you have put upon her. You have no right to keep a day." "Should I not keep the gifts?" she asked. His fancy pleased her. "The gifts, yes--even the gifts of tears, but never a day. You cannot hold a happy day, for it goes too quickly. This one sad day that marched so slowly by you is the one you chose to hold. Lady," he pleaded, "let her go!”

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Book:A Spinner In The Sun
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“Keep your handkerchief neat, and then you can be trusted with a bigger clothe. If you can’t manage few minutes, you are likely to waste 24 hours no matter how many times it’s given to you!”

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Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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“Minutes turn into hours that add up to days amounting to weeks that become  months melting into years accumulating for decades to pile up for centuries and ultimately form minutes again― just on a grander, divine scale.”

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Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
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“Adam rozlišoval skoré a neskoré dni v týždni. Skoré sú vlastne len dva, pondelok a utorok, pričom druhý akoby bol skorý iba ráno, do dvanástej hodiny, potom je už veľmi blízko streda. Niekedy je bližšie, inokedy ďalej, no stáva sa, že už v pondelok večer vidí, ako utorok prefičí do stredy, čo je iba zdanlivo stred týždňa, príliš skorý a zdanlivý stred. Tým naozajstným stredom je až štvrtok s tromi dňami pred ním a s rovnakým počtom za ním, aspoň geometricky, pretože opticky je skôr prvým skorším dňom na konci týždňa, čo nie je nič iné ako prvý neskorý deň toho istého týždňa. Potom sa ukáže piatok, ktorý je v pondelok ráno v takej diaľke, až sa zdá, že za ním nemôžu byť ďalšie dni: sobota a nedeľa. Akoby tam boli iba zo zvyku, akoby tým koncom týždňa bol naozaj piatok. Z tohto pohľadu sa potom sobota a nedeľa javia ako prvé skoré dni ďalšieho týždňa, čím sa z pondelka a utorka stávajú akési čudné dni, topiace sa v rozpakoch, ba možno aj v plači, lebo nevedia, kde sú: začiatok im niekto ukradol a koniec je ďaleko.”

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Author:Dušan Dušek
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“It is reasonable to think that if you spend your days indoors under artificial lights, staring at a screen, sitting in computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) fields and exposed to radio waves, that you may eventually develop a strange form of radiation sickness.”

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Author:Steven Magee
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