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• Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Giving, Meals

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

  John Knowles

  Mean, Years, Important

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dark, Ends, Abyss

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

  Helen McCrory

  Lying, Sleep, Feel Better

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

  William Allen White

  Morning, Bored, Strange

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• A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

  Sivananda

  Love, Peace, Buddhist

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

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• My 'go to' workout is called the Asylum from Beach Body. It's intense training with lots of intervals, core work. It's hard! I travel a lot, so I can take it on the road with me and do it in a hotel room.

  Apolo Ohno

  Beach, Workout, Intense Training

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• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

  Don Marquis

  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

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• Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.

  Gloria Naylor

  Hurt, Memories, Glasses

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.35, Penguin

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• The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Reality, Imagination

  Michel Foucault (1998). “Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology”, p.106, The New Press

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• The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered Abdullah, who had been waiting for us on the verandah and who had, I supposed, been alarmed by Emerson's shouts and hurried to discover what disaster had prompted them. The cat got entangled in Abdullah's skirts and a brief interval of staggering (by Abdullah), scratching (by Horus) and swearing (by both parties) ensued before Horus freed himself and departed.

  Barbara Mertz

  Party, Cat, Doors

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• Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood, comforting myself with the inherited confidence that, some day, this relapse will appear only an interval in the eternal rhythm of progress onward and upward.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Onward And Upward, Childhood

  Stefan Zweig, Wes Anderson (2014). “The Society of the Crossed Keys”, p.20, Pushkin Press

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• Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Giving Up, Real, Thinking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, James M. Edie (1964). “The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics”, p.159, Northwestern University Press

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• He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.

  Walter Kirn

  Interesting, Acting, Retarded

  Walter Kirn (2002). “Up in the Air: A Novel”, p.119, Anchor

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• Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Years, Tree, Six Year Olds

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• I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Loss, Long

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.262, Ballantine Books

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• I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Love, Sad, Thinking Of You

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• Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Thinking, Long

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.51, Penguin

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• It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

  John Steinbeck

  Night, Pearls, Hours

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.57, Penguin

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• there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

  Raymond Carver

  Long, Chance, Enough

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.253, Vintage

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• That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Morning, Drinking, Night

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

  Daniel Handler

  Teacher, School, Bells

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• The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Order, Break Out

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Funny, Civilization, America

  Attributed in Saturday Review of Literature, 1 Dec. 1945

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