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1 " The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable. "
― Joyce Carol Oates , Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
2 " Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive. "
― William S. Burroughs , Ghost of Chance
3 " Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the sudden realization that nothing else was necessary to guarantee that it would be done; she needed no proofs, no questions, no explanations; a complex problem could rest safely on three syllables pronounced by a man who knew what he was saying. "
― Ayn Rand , Atlas Shrugged
