“I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.”
Diary entry of Friday (2 February), concerning a card game
Nausea (1938)
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“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”
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Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Sparks
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Context: Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.
“Everything passes,
Everything changes,
Just do what you think you should do.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist