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" We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. "
Victor Hugo
Time
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Present
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" Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. "
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" When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. "
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" Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. "
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" Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. "
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