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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.”
“Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.”
“While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.”
“But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a lau...”
“And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where t...”
“Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.”