Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return. Julian Barnes
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Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return. We are taught that our time is limited and that there are many people who are doing their best to get ahead of us. We are constantly reminded that there is no room for error, which means that we must learn to live in the moment.

Source: The Sense Of An Ending

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