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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.


Charles Baudelaire


#conception #consumes #down #escaping #every

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.


Jorge Luis Borges


#am #carries #consumes #devours #fire

I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.


Michel Gondry


#another #come #community #consumes #create

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.


Henri Frederic Amiel


#enlightens #fire #same #which

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.


Thomas Friedman


#consumes #course #energy #generate #golf

In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.


Michael McCaul


#brothers #cancer #cases #child #children

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.


George Orwell


#catch #consumes #creature #does #eggs

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.


Percy Bysshe Shelley


#contain #ever #lightning #poetry #sword

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.


Herbert Simon


#among #attention #consume #consumes #creates

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.


August Strindberg


#cannot #consumes #destroys #end #ever






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