Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?