#interval

Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events. ↗

— George Kubler

#interval #renewal #sunyata #the-shape-of-time #time

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#horrible #i #insane #intervals #long

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#cold #coldness #degrees #desire #desires

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first. ↗

— George Combe

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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ↗

— Don Marquis

#between #interval #periods #unhappiness

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#i #interval #silence #sound #space

Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to discuss without spoiling the plot. The intervals between first-run programming provide a space for communion and that tantalizing sense of anticipation. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#between #big #bite #book #choice

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. ↗

— John Barrymore

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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#barbarism #civilization #degeneration #directly #gone