Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place you’ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness
Interpretation
Time can feel both expansive and constrictive, capturing moments that linger with us.
This quote reflects the elusive nature of time, suggesting that it can stretch to encompass moments of profound connection and meaning. It illustrates how certain experiences can feel timeless, where moments seem to last forever, even as we return to them in memory, capturing the essence of nostalgia and the human experience of time's flow.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of cherishing moments with loved ones, this quote can highlight how time shapes our relationships.
Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment.
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
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