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“I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.”
― Sculpting in Time
― Sculpting in Time
“When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single theme; he will come to realise it only when his life begins to enact its first variations.”
― Immortality
― Immortality
“To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers.”
― Immortality
― Immortality
“Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.”
― Baltasar and Blimunda
― Baltasar and Blimunda
“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of paintings and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense.”
― The Joke
― The Joke
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