Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
— Victor Hugo · Time
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
— Victor Hugo · Time
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“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
“Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.”
“Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complémentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire.”
“There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.”
“In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.”
“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”
“I'm totally vulnerable to all conditions of existence all the time, no matter where I go or how good I am. Really getting this deconditions me from illusion and entitlement. It’s a fast track to letting go of the ego. To say yes, to the conditions of existence liberates me. I face them directly rather than F.A.C.E them, with fear, attachment, control, and entitlement.”
“It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.”
“Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did.”
“Zero is the enslaved time, enslaved past, and future in the present of Zero. Zero is the end of recording: the time that contains all time and an absolute multitude within itself. Time, an eternity, is smaller than a moment, than a second, than a fraction of a second; it is not measurable. Time does not exist. Eternity does not have measure; its only measure is Zero, into which it goes to sleep. That is why an instant is longer than an eternity: an instant has a duration.”
“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”