Jenny Diski famous quotes

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  • Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.

  • The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.

  • Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

  • His time's forever, everywhere his place.

  • Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

  • The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

  • When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  • Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

  • Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

  • Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.