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And it seems to me that life…is nothing other than this: the incessant cry of these emotions that drive us… Sometimes it is a cry of pain. Sometimes it is a song. (P.212)

Perhaps, ultimately, the emotional dimension of time is not the film of mist that prevents us from apprehending the nature of time objectively. Perhaps the emotion of time is precisely what time *is* for us. (P.201)

We are *histories* of ourselves, narratives… I am this long ongoing novel. My life consists of it. (P.178)

This is what time is: it is entirely in the present, in our minds, as memory and as anticipation. (P.182)

The flow of time is not a characteristic of the universe…it is due to the particular perspective that we have from our corner of it. (P.150)

What is special is not the state of the early universe: it is the small system *S* to which we belong. (P.156)

[Quantum gravity] does not describe how things evolve *in time.* The theory describes how things change *one in respect to the others.” (P.120)

…the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not of permanence. Not of being, but of becoming. (P.97)

“Things” in themselves are only events that for a while are monotonous. (P.103)

Aristotle…came to the conclusion: time is the measurement of change. (P.63)

…time is “absolute, true, and mathematical,” assumed by Newton (P.67)

There is a structure of reality that *is* the gravitational field; it is not separate from the rest of physics, nor is it the stage across which the world passes. (P.78)

Not only is there no single time for different places—there is not even a single time for any particular place. (P.40)

The temporal structure of the universe is…also made up of cones. (P.48)

The difference between past and future [lies in] the natural disordering that leads to gradually less particular, less special situations. (P. 30)

The difference between the past and the future refers only to *our own* blurred vision of the world. (P. 33)

Entropy…is nothing other than the number of microscopic states that our blurred vision of the world fails to distinguish. (P. 34)