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As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.
Kafka on the Shore
As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.
Dance Dance Dance
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity
One can only forget about time by making use of it
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose
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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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