There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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In this quote, Oliver Wendell Holmes is offering a very different view of time from the one we have been taught. Most people think that there are years that ask questions and years that answer. In this traditional view, a year is a period in which a person asks a question and then receives an answer. Years in this way are analogous to months, in that they have a beginning and an end.

Both the month and the year have specific length, but they do not have a duration. The difference between the two is that the month ends when it is over, while the year ends with a specific date. In this way, years can be thought of as months with an end date rather than as having no end date.

This view implies that there is nothing special about time itself. It is simply something that goes from one point to another without having any meaning or purpose.

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

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