Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

Alan Lightman


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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

Alan Lightman


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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

Alan Lightman

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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

Alan Lightman

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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

Alan Lightman

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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Alan Lightman

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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Alan Lightman

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A world with one month is a world of equality.

Alan Lightman


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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Alan Lightman

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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

Alan Lightman

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