"The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes."
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"Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct."
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"It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back."
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"God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all."
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"When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on."
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"I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'"
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"This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for."
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"We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously."
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"If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end."
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"As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development."
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"Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation. You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold, comes at long last over everyone."
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"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."
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"letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation."
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"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."
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"Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own."
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"For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder."
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"From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle."
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"Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever."
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"Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go."
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"The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last."
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