"When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends."
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"The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant."
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"Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach"
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"You just can't take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that's been instilled in me. And I don't look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change."
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"The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet."
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"Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming."
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"I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses."
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"Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it."
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"She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant."
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"Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful."
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"The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself."
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