Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 5 (at page 41)
“A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.”
The Moviegoer (1961)
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“The lapse of time uncovers hidden secrets.”
Misnad al-Imām al-Jawād, p. 245
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"The Colour of Life" in The Colour of Life and Other Essays on Things Seen and Heard (London: John Lane, 1896), p. 4.
Source: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter XV: The Last Men; Section 4, “Cosmology” (p. 229)
“And fair with sculptured stories it was wrought,
By lapse of time unto dim ruin brought.”
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70), The Lady of the Land
Context: Noble the house was, nor seemed built for war,
But rather like the work of other days,
When men, in better peace than now they are,
Had leisure on the world around to gaze,
And noted well the past times' changing ways;
And fair with sculptured stories it was wrought,
By lapse of time unto dim ruin brought.