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• Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Empty, Timeless

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.54, Verso

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• In the Now, there really is no destination. Each moment is lived for its own sake, even as you move toward whatever you many choose to pursue. When you are focused on some outcome or achievement-or are looking forward to the day when you are able to live in conditions that you imagine will be superior to whatever currently exists-your life right now becomes just an interval on the way to the next event.

  Richard Moss

  Moving, Achievement, Events

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• I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

  Annie Dillard

  Waking, Scales, Awake

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.53, Canongate Books

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• It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

  Winston Churchill

  Work, Mean, Mind

  Sir Winston Churchill (1932). “Amid these storms: thoughts and adventures”

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• Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Filled Up, Plot

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.179

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• The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Light, Opposites

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.214, Random House

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• Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.

  George Santayana

  Peace, Men, Passionate

  George Santayana (2002). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3”, MIT Press

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• How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Memories, Fall

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.293

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• Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, Grief, Sadness

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• Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream?

  Edward George, Baron George

  Dream, Soul, Path

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• We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Moving, Men

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 180), March 6, 1995.

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• After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Illumination, Two, Germany

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”

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• Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He thought about the Pythagorean major third, the Didymus comma, the way the intervals sound out of tune rather than as though they were different notes. This, he thought, was where his brilliance at mathematics bled into his love of music; music was the realm in which his mathematical brain danced.

  Ru Freeman

  Brain, Sound, Tunes

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• It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Saying Less, Years

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.230

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• My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

  Andrew Forge

  Ambition, Giving, Alive

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• Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Spring, Love Is, Soul

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Past, Long, Giving

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Reality, Influence

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• Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

  Marshall McLuhan

  War, Identity, Weapons

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.97, 1988.

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• There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

  Samuel Johnson

  Progress, Timber, Seeds

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• Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Space, Choices, Arbitrary

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• A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

  Katharine Butler Hathaway

  Adventure, Order, Needs

  Katharine Butler Hathaway (1946). “The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith”

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• If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Mean, Action

  'A Sentimental Journey' (1768) 'Montriul'

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• When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.

  Alan Lightman

  Heart, People, Brain

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Dance for Two: Essays”, p.42, Pantheon

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• 1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.

  Jacques Derrida

  Mean, Play, Differences

  "Positions" by Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, (p. 21), 1982.

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