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“Present and past—what had Dr. Orme said about that? The light was most fully in the present when, flaring up, it met John's eye directly. Whatever else he saw must have been lit up before and now shone only within his own eye—a light of the past.”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“In the study of history, slowness is an advantage. The scholar decelerates the fast-moving events of past days until his mind can fathom them. Then… he can demonstrate to the rashest king how he should have acted in battle.”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“Someday he'd be quicker… to be like the sun, which only seems to wander slowly across the sky, yet whose rays are as quick as the blink of an eye. …they reach in one instant the most distant mountains.”

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The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“History is intercourse with greatness and duration. It allows us to rise above time.'… that was tempting. But he couldn't earn any money with it.”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“The spirit of history can't be caught in pictures. …History, seriously pursued, belongs in the realm of uncertainty. A picture is a certainty.”

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The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“Large animals, John thought, move more slowly than mice and wasps. Perhaps he was secretly a giant.”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“The most distant mountains, like himself, just stood there and gazed.”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“John always went over the time limit and then answered one or two earlier questions unexpectedly, out of order, for nothing could prevent him from solving a problem, even if it had already become inappropriate.”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“The world is full of important ideas, but I'll follow my own mind.”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“I'm not afraid because I can only imagine nothingness as rather quiet.”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“He didn't want to learn another thing. Motionless, he constantly stared at the same spot, unseeing. He breathed as if the air were loam. …he no longer wanted to be quick. …he wanted to slow down until he died. …Outside the passage of time… until they'd think him dead. …The alterations of day and night would finally become just a flickering… John sucked in the air and held his breath. …everything would be as it had been before his birth. He would have never been.”

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The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“The villagers and squires now treated him with respect, largely because of his tall stature and the scar on his forehead. If he asked someone to repeat what had been said he was no longer mocked… The country was actually pleasant for a grown man.”

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p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“In this place they knew him and were aware of how hard he had to strain. He would rather be among strangers who might possibly be more like himself. There had to be such people—perhaps far, far away. And there he would be able to learn more easily how to be fast.”

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p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“If he could just stay there and gaze upon the land like a stone, whole centuries long, while grassy plains became forests and swamps turned into villages or tilled land. …He'd be recognized as human only when he stirred.”

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“When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.”

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The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“Now everything would be different; a little today, all of it tomorrow.”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“There are two varieties of men. Some understand 'some women', the others are those who simply 'understand women.”

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Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'.
Netzkarte (1981)

“How did Tom get there? Again, a piece of time had dropped out.”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“The game went on. John had understood nothing. Everything was too fast: the game, the other's talk, the goings-on in the street…”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“If there had been no war, perhaps I would have already discovered a lot by now.”

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Sten Nadolny livre The Discovery of Slowness

p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

“History is intercourse with greatness and duration. It allows us to rise above time.”

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...that was tempting. But he couldn't earn any money with it.
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)

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