Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future. Hermann Hesse
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"Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" is a quote from the novel "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot. In this quote, Ezra Pound is implying that each part of life is timeless and is present now, now being now. What we do with our lives now will have an everlasting effect on the future and the past.

Source: Siddhartha

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