"Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification."
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"There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments."
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"No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open."
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"But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last."
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"The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea."
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"Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment."
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"No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours."
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"For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud."
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"Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved."
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"No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness."
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"When I think about my own work, there usually is one or the other light bulb moment where there is this flash of insight. Where do these ideas come from? Supernatural? Enigmatic? Divine? You can take that any way you like. I think the human mind does a lot of things that we could call somehow divine."
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"There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away."
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"The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment."
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"And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?"
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"[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger."
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"The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't."
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"What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost."
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"We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb. The performances are so utterly absurd regarding the "post-truth" moment that the proper response might best be ridicule."
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"Enjoy the moment and appreciate what you have."
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"I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail."
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