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Fyodor Dostoevsky1 quote
We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast. But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is? — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866Marcus Aurelius1 quote
Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Matsuo Basho1 quote
The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers... I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming. — Matsuo Basho · 1694Tom Stoppard1 quote
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? — Tom Stoppard · 1966William Congreve1 quote
Eternity was in that moment. — William Congreve · 1693