34 Quotes About Duration


  • Author Hilary L. Fink
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    Interestingly, the nature of the Russian language itself – its use of perfective and imperfective aspect – reflects a very Bergsonian duality between objective and subjective time, or between time considered spatially and time as duration

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  • Author Sanford Kwinter
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    (…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22

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  • Author Glenn Haybittle
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    Sometimes you begin something believing it will soon be over but discover it carries on under its own steam. Perhaps there's some mysterious untouchable law that dictates the length of everything.

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  • Author Marcus Aurelius
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    Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

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  • Author James Blumenthal
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    duration of exercise didn't seem to matter -- what seemed to matter most was whether people were exercising or not.

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