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“The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is worth nothing. One breaks one’s neck in living.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell-burst, the plummet of the car from the bridge.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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