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"I love you, Kaylee. More than I've ever loved anyone. More than I will ever love anyone. If I could freeze this moment in time and never have to let you go, I would do it without a second thought."
"I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it."
"One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future."
"Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by."
"I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me."
"The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so."
"You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen."
"When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill."
"Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless."
"Art is evidence of our most creative moment."
"Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state."
"Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!"
"I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine."
"It takes a few years to understand what we've lived through. At the moment, we're still sort of mired in the irrelevant bullshit. There isn't yet that public conversation about 9/11."
"The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment."
"Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking."
"Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever."
"But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment."
"No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low."
"Savor every moment and go after your dreams."
