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And it was this that awed him — the weird combination of fixity and change, the terrible moment of immobility stamped with eternity in which, passing life at great speed, both the observer and the observed seem frozen in time.

— Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

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His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.

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The old church, with its sharp steeple, rotted slowly, decently, prosperously, like a good man's wife.

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He who lets himself be whored by fashion will be whored by time.

You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

Go, seeker, if you will, throughout the land and you will find us burning in the night.

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Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

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