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• You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

  Veronica Roth

  Looks, Passage Of Time, Wells

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• It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.

  James A. Baldwin

  Passion, Darkness, Sake

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• This life is but the passage of a day,
  This life is but a pang and all is over;
  But in the life to come which fades not away
  Every love shall abide and every lover.

  Christina Rossetti

  Life, Lovers, Fades

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.280, Delphi Classics

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• Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.

  Keith Donohue

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Time, Home, Water

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• Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

  John Steinbeck

  Fall, Rocks, Sea

  John Steinbeck (1997). “Tortilla Flat”, p.107, Penguin

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• The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Animal, Moles, Looks

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• The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Change, Time

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• Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

  Pete Townshend

  Teenage, Past, Trouble

  "Spokesman for a generation", www.cnn.com. January 14, 2003.

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• A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare luminosity. One feels echoes of Oppen's succinct tenderness in the depiction of the numerous characters of this work. Without other, there is no self. And that other is the stranger who must be loved. Concordance is, after all, a wedding poem-leaves and pages in search of a certain passage toward harmony.

  Fady Joudah

  Character, Epic, Echoes

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• I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Prayer, Offering, Years

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• I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

  Shan Sa

  Regret, Lying, Sadness

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• Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Creative, Overcoming, New Horizons

  "Everyday Life in the Modern World".

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• When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water/ice/fire) or movements (ebb/flow/wave, inspiration/expiration) or inside-outside passages (door/individual/crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside.

  Bernard Parmegiani

  Inspiration, Doors, Ice

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• I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

  Janet Evanovich

  Long, Want, Narrative

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• Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Marriage, Real, Commitment

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Men, Doctors, Soul

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.70, Faber & Faber

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• There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Letting Go, Falling In Love, Sadness

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.19, Penguin

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• What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

  Justin Cronin

  Dark, Strange Places, Our Lives

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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• It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.

  George A Tice

  Photography, Way, Moments

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• He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.

  Neal Shusterman

  Kids, Silence, Faces

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't really had a good answer, as so often -- is me. But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you need to go home and look it up. Before you look it up, I'll tell you what it says though. It says, hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it's good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage, 'I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you,' and I'm like, 'Okay, I'm in good company.'

  Sarah Palin

  Home, Remember You, Remembers You

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• I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.

  Vincent Price

  Spiritual, Crazy, Inspiration

  Vincent Price (2016). “The Book of Joe: About a Dog and His Man”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Writing, Mind

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Book, Reading, Order

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