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Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another
time
arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.
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As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to
time
.
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They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at
times
, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.
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To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a
time
which has not arrived or has already been. And to protect their delicate vision of that other
time
, madmen will justify their condition with touching loyalty, and surround it with a thousand distractive schemes.
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All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate
time
, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.
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The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each
time
it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too.
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Never in his life had Alessandro had to squint in starlight, but now the stars were so bright that at
times
he had to cover his eyes, and when they burned too brilliantly for keeping still, they sometimes shot across the sky in short bursts. Though these quiet illuminations vanished almost as soon as they had started, they lingered in the eye's inexact memory of their luminescent paths. Perhaps had they been stronger and more constant, and hung in a dull white line, Alessandro's heart would not have risen each
time
he saw them. They were less than little puffs of smoke, their tracks thinner than a hair, the bursts of light mainly a matter of memory.
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Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were
time
not to have at its end the absence of
time
, and the absence of
time
not to have been preceded by
time
, neither would be of any consequence.
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And if you were a spirit, and
time
did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
June 28, 1947
(age 77)
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