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I always live in the present. The future is unknown to me. The past is no longer mine.
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The Book of Disquiet
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.
Tropic of Cancer
Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.
Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.
A Wild Sheep Chase
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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