> like those faces of dead friends which the impassioned efforts of our memory pursue without recapturing and which, when we are no longer thinking of them, are there before our eyes just as they were in life — Marcel Proust (@Daily_Proust) April 9, 2019 [https://twitter.com/Daily_Proust/…
> “The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.” —Joyce Carol Oates https://t.co/egIc8E4CNv — The Paris Review (@parisreview) January 27, 2019 [https://twitter.com/parisreview/status/1089418226910593024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not…
> People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Einstein, The Illusion of Time, via Farnam Street [https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/reading-2017/]…
> "You cannot forfeit the future in order to reclaim the past" –Neera Tanden https://t.co/jANY9JEF0K pic.twitter.com/CjD3iJ3HpL [https://t.co/CjD3iJ3HpL] — Harper's Magazine (@Harpers) July 27, 2017 [https://twitter.com/Harpers/status/890663085177880576]…
> “The past does not exist except as a threadbare fragment in the weaker minds of the many.”Superb read,especially now https://t.co/xtBACZZWI9 pic.twitter.com/uAWZYDqTeY [https://t.co/uAWZYDqTeY] — Explore (@Explorer) November 19, 2016 [https://twitter.com/Explorer/status/800060081022832640] See Meditations on Time [https:…
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I've meant to record these two for a while— > Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for…