Alan Lightman Quotes

On Occasion A Traveler Will Venture From One City To Another. Is He Perplexed What Took Seconds In Berne Might Take Hours In Fribourg Or Days In Lucerne. In The Time For A Leaf To Fall In One Place A Flower Could Bloom In Another. In The Duration Of A Thunderclap In One Place Two People Could Fall In Love In Another. In The Time That A Boy Grows Into A Man A Drop Of Rain Might Slide Down A Windowpane Yet The Traveler Is Unaware Of These Discrepancies ... If The Pace Of Human Desires Stay Proportionally The Same With The Motion Of Waves On A Pond How Could The Traveler Know That Something Has Changed

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