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«There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.»
«There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.»
«Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''»
«Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.»
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
«Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.»
«The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.»
«The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.»
«Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton, Time.»
«The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires constantly to be wound up»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Mind | Keywords: clock, constantly, wound, wound up

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