“everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale;”
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.”
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O. Henry
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