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• Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Mirrors, Two, Voice

  "The Beautiful and Damned".

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• I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Clouds, Bird, Bars

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.

  Georgette Heyer

  Enjoyed

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Behold, Here's Poison”, p.157, Random House

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• He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

  Anne Carson

  Gertrude, Poet, Difficult

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.

  Oliver Sacks

  Sound, Example, Digital

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• He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

  Haruki Murakami

  Departed, Mind, Depth

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• He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

  Laini Taylor

  Waiting, Pretending, Suitable

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Two, Black, Hints

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1969-1974”

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• My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest. I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Death’s note wants to climb over— but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Song, Dark

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways.

  Hope Edelman

  Daughter, Mother, Grief

  Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.37, Da Capo Press

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• Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.

  David Hume

  Courage, People, Quality

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.706, Delphi Classics

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• An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

  Jane Austen

  Grateful, Meditation, Fearless

  Jane Austen (1853). “Northanger abbey, and Persuasion”, p.285

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• I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

  Robert Plant

  Thinking, Musical

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• The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel's ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Echoes, Subjectivity

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• Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

  Johnny Carson

  Travel, Home, Men

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• The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press

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• Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Government, Class, Long

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• The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Museums, Imperfection

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.396, Broadview Press

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• The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you a chance to cry out in distinguishable language for you. 'Here I am within you.' That is the silent voice, the voice of nature, which speaks to everyone who will listen.

  Walter Russell

  Here I Am, Voice, Long

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

  George Santayana

  Death, Dark, Birth

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• Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Wise, Strong

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.186, Zondervan

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• Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Sweet, Men, Self

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.342

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• After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals.

  Rosie Thomas

  Fear, Selfish, Rocks

  "Iris and Ruby: A Novel".

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• In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.

  William Penn

  Prayer, Home, Waiting

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• Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Space, Silence

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