"Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad."
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"I sat for a moment, figuring things out, then decided to stay there. If I was on the floor, I couldn't fall down."
"Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves."
"You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle."
"I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee."
"I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life."
"It's important to be alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do."
"The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually."
"Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment."
"There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion."
"What you have at the moment you have attracted by the person you have become."
"If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!"
"Each moment presents what happens."
"He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it."
"The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder."
"Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering"
"From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love."
"I have a green card now, but they can take that away, yeah, they can take that away at any moment. So please don't; please let me keep it."
"life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it"
"The moment one asks himself whether he is happy, he ceases to be so."