Quote by Virginia Woolf
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.
Summary
This quote highlights the subjective nature of time in relation to human perception. Unlike the predictable passage of time for other living things, the human mind can distort or speed up the perception of time. A single hour can feel much longer or shorter depending on one's mental state or the nature of their experience. This suggests that time is not absolute and can be influenced by the quirks and mysteries of the human psyche.
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Time
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