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Dylan Thomas Poet, Writer
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"The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident."

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Bono Musician, Activist
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"For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment."

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Byron Katie Author, Speaker
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"The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments."

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Sam Smith Singer
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"I actually have OCD really bad, and it's getting a bit worse at the moment. I have to check taps... before I leave the house, to make sure I've checked everything in case it floods."

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Sharon Stone Actress
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"I don't thrive on the concept of being naked at every possible moment, but it's not the biggest deal in the world to me."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train."

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