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People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather confuse change and newness, I think. What is truly new never changes.""You speak in riddles, aged progenitor.""The world worships a certain kind of newness. People are always talking about a new car, or a new drink or p-p-play or house, but these things are not truly new, are they? They begin to get old the minute you acquire them. New is not in things. New is within us. The truly new is something that is new forever: you. Every morning of your life and every evening, every moment is new. You have never lived this moment before and you never will again. In this sense the new is also the eternal.

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Tony Hendra

Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul

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And we were in our thirties. Well into the Age of Boredom, when nothing is new. Now, I__ not being self-pitying; it__ simply true. Newness, or whatever you want to call it, becomes a very scarce commodity after thirty. I think that__ unfair. If I were in charge of the human life span, I__ make sure to budget newness much more selectively, to ration it out. As it is now, it__ almost used up in the first three years of life. By then you__e seen for the first time, tasted for the first time, held something for the first time. Learned to walk, talk, go to the bathroom. What have you got to look forward to that can compare with that? Sure, there__ school. Making friends. Falling in love. Learning to drive. Sex. Learning to trade. That has to carry you for the next twenty-five years. But after that? What__ the new excitement? Mastering your home computer? Figuring out how to work CompuServe? __ow, if it were up to me, I__ parcel out. So that, say, at thirty-five we just learned how to go on the potty. Imagine the feeling of accomplishment! They__ have office parties. "Did you hear? The vice president in charge of overseas development just went a whole week without his diaper. We__e buying him a gift." It__ be beautiful.

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Phoef Sutton

Fifteen Minutes to Live

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If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of the instincts. In me the idea of an absolutely regular world, symmetrical and methodical, is associated with that first impulse and burgeoning of nature.The rest of your images that associate passion with disorder, love with intemperate overflow - river fire whirlpool volcano - are for me memories of nothingness and listlessness and boredom.

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Italo Calvino

The Complete Cosmicomics