Einstein's Dreams (1993) (edit title/settings)

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• Albert Einstein: Add a description of this character.
• Einstein
• Besso: Friend to Einstein
• Mileva: Einstein's neglected wife.
• Peter Klausen
• Anna: Besso's wife.

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• “One minute before the end of the world, everyone gathers on the grounds of the Kuntstmuseum. Men, women, and children form a giant circle and hold hands. No one moves. No one speaks. It is so absolutely quiet that each person can hear the heartbeat of the person to his right or his left. This is the last minute of the world.”

• “For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.”

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• The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

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• If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

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• It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.

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• Where the two times meet, desperation. Where the two times go their separate ways, contentment. For, miraculously, a barrister, a nurse, a baker can make a world in either time, but not in both times. Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

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• Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

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• For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.

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• Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but it is noble to live life, and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Alan Lightman (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3562.I45397 E38 1994
• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( L ) › Lightman, Alan
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary