this is the tale the world tells

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us.

There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.


—Meister Eckhart

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Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place.

You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but never exactly where you'd been reading.


—Chuck Palahniuk

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The world is a magic book, and we its sentences.
We read it and read ourselves.

And never come back,
Returned to what we once were before we became
what we are.

This is the tale the world tells, this is the way it ends.

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All my life I've listened for the dark speech of silence,

And now, every night,

I hear a slight murmur, a slow rush,
My blood setting out on its long journey beyond the skin.


—Charles Wright

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