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• I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Father, Storm, Eras

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.219, Random House

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• Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.

  Johann Ludwig Tieck

  Time, Hands, Ice

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• The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.

  Sarah Manguso

  Running, Privilege, Time Passing

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• As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which I lived. Gradually I began to see a pattern of nonsense in much scientific writing. Scientific explanations given regarding the origins or functioning of various phenomena simply didn't make sense.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Book, Writing, Avid

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• Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Reading, Sitting

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 13, 2016

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• In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because they were working together, focused on a common threat, a shared enemy. But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.

  Bernard Beckett

  Memories, Routine, Terror

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.e-reading.club. 2006.

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• Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.

  Luke Davies

  Together, Our Love, Remember

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.85, Penguin

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• Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Dream, Distance, Sleep

  Alexandre Dumas (2006). “The Three Musketeers: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.234, Penguin

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• we who determine how quickly time passes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Determine

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget.

  Betty Smith

  Forget, Let Me, Healer

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.

  Tori Amos

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• As time passes on
  I turn the next page
  To discover a new me
  while I continue to age.
  I may no longer be
  Who I was long ago
  But I still can matter -
  That much I know.
  With a new set of tools
  I have gathered from time -
  I keep looking forward
  To more mountains to climb.
  My best is not over
  As the skeptics might say -
  I just learn how to conquer
  In a much wiser way.
  So don't sell me short -
  I am not nearly done -
  I CAN STILL MATTER -
  I've only just begun.

  Tom Krause

  Retirement, Long Ago, Age

  Tom Krause, “I Can Still Matter”

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• Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change.

  Victor Pelevin

  Names, World, Problem

  Victor Pelevin (2008). “The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Boys, Alchemist

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• Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Pain, Ironing Board, White

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.290, Zola Books

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• Now, a lot of people look for answers in spirituality or different texts, but for me this is life. This is what life is: the passage of time. It's not about how to pass the time, but about the acceptance of the time passing. I know people think of my work as spiritual, but really it's just that I consume time. That's all.

  Tehching Hsieh

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Echoes, People

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• These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

  Morgan Freeman

  Wall, Hate, Enough Time

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• At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

  Lee Friedlander

  Ideas, Feelings, Add

  Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

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• The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

  Sappho

  Sleep, Moon, Midnight

  Fragment 94

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• Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.

  Richard Powers

  Mother, Children, Spring

  Richard Powers (2009). “Generosity: An Enhancement”, p.166, Macmillan

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• I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.

  LeBron James

  Team, Thinking, Cleveland

  "LeBron: I'm coming back to Cleveland" by LeBron James, www.si.com. July 11, 2014.

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• To have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life. And there are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings, because we are here to do that and the third is to express your unique talents and when you are expressing your unique talents you lose track of time.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Dream, Time

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• The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

  Sappho

  Lying, Moon, Night

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• As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But those miraculous days, when you and I, along with everyone else, searched together for just that one thing, will continue revolving forever somewhere deep in my heart, as my bittersweet memory.

  Chica Umino

  Memories, Heart, Forever

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