"The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment."
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"From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen."
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"I'm in the saddle every day playing a screwball. And then somebody comes along and says, "How would you like to go to Italy and Spain and do an Italian/Spanish/German co-production with an Italian director who's only directed one movie?" It wasn't like I was going there to be with Federico Fellini. But something was there, and I thought, Well, I loved this story when it was told by Akira Kurosawa; maybe this is a good idea. That's an instinctive moment. A Fistful of Dollars was made."
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"Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it."
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"At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction."
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"Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark."
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"But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted."
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"For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves."
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"Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived."
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"It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time."
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"This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy."
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"Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation"
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"Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment."
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"For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place."
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"She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist."
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"Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip."
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"This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need."
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"You can argue about globalization and the many benefits it has had, but also you have to appeal to the mass with everything. The Chinese, the Americans, the Russians... Everything becomes this very bland product, and that's all we're producing at the moment. It's driven by money."
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"The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false."
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"Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons."
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