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1 " Was the past always stalking the present, waiting to destroy it? UrSu had told him that a two-dimensional question like that had no solution, and therefore no meaning. "Make a triangle with a past, present, and future. Then each two will explain the third. "
― A.C.H. Smith , The Dark Crystal
2 " Life presents more alternatives than choices. "
3 " It had no end and therefore no beginning, yet it progressed. Thus it was timeless, infinitely present and so could be taken to be a representation of time, which cannot be pictured by those who imagine themselves linear subjects to it. "
4 " Wisdom is not for knowing but for understanding. "
5 " How strange, he relfected, that at a time of calamity he should gain something simple and strong and, perhaps, precious. Were all good and true lessons to be learned only at such cost? "
6 " Look, that moss there, it hums. Listen to it." Jen listened and heard. "Now the trees," Kira told him. "It's something like a whistle, or a sigh. And you see the bubbles on the water. Listen to them, Jen. You must always listen. There is always music to be heard. You can hear the percussion of the water rippling. The music we make is only a part of it. "
7 " Jen represented hope; and hope, she instinctively knew, would always be shadowed with pain, just as her despair, now, in the niche behind the tapestry, was shadowed with something like opposite of pain--a numbed uncaring, an acceptance of the thrall of death, almost a fervent wish for it. "
8 " In the winter of hope, the mind craves change. "
