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Time Quotes
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space could exist entirely independent of time, energy or mass and that all these things were actually separate items. Only when combined did they make up a universe.
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I was equally conscious of the time that had passed since I had last seen her and the time that would inevitably pass before I saw her again: not Spin time, but something just as erosive and just as hungry. There were creases at the corners of her eyes and mouth, not unlike the ones I saw in the mirror every morning.
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By midnight—and this, it seemed to me, was the clearest indicator yet of the grotesque disparity between terrestrial time and Spin-time—human civilization on Mars had either failed entirely or had been in progress for most of a hundred thousand years.
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There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. It’s hard to live in all those kinds of time. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.
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A few billion years will do that. Everything ages, even the sky;
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