“There were times when his life had seemed to him like one prolonged act of sleepwalking.”
Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 16 (p. 142)
“Time will prolong time, and life will serve life.”
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Albert Camus
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The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Absurd Man
Context: Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.
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French author and journalist 1913–1960Related quotes
“But if you think that life can be prolonged by the breath of mortal fame, yet when the slow time robs you of this too, then there awaits you but a second death.”
Quodsi putatis longius vitam trahi
mortalis aura nominis,
cum sera vobis rapiet hoc etiam dies
iam vos secunda mors manet.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
(480) philosopher of the early 6th century
Poem VII, lines 23-26; translation by W. V. Cooper
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
Christiaan Barnard
(1922–2001) South-African physician
Quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations by Peter McDonald (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 9 https://books.google.it/books?id=MuTnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9.
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“We are not considering at all a prolongation or adding months or time to the mission in Libya.”
Nycole Turmel
(1942) Canadian politician
NDP opposed to extending Libya mission http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/14/pol-ndp-no-extension-libya.html September 14, 2011.
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Bruce Lee
(1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 10; Here Lee paraphrases a much older English proverb: If you care for life, don't waste your time; for time is what life is made of. (as quoted in Bordighera and the Western Riviera (1883) by Frederick Fitzroy Hamilton, p. 189).
Context: Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”
Source: Thirst for Love
“Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”
Source: The Small Bachelor