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• I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Caring, Lasts, November

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.185, Xist Publishing

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• We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Sky, Victory, Age

  The Atlantic Community Quarterly, Volumes 14-15 (p. 200), 1976-1978.

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• This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Dream, Fall, Light

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”

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• Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Lakes, Water

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• Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Pain, Reality, Men

  "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1940.

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• When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it before. It may be a backhand he uses, one that he may never have used before in that circumstance. His play is a fresh integration of his world at the instant of action. A really great scientist has the whole past at his disposal. At any instant he is rebuilding the world, molecule by molecule, in his subconscious. That is what you want in an athlete or a scientist.

  Edwin Land

  Athlete, Past, Games

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• Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.

  Edwin Land

  Photography, Years, Liquid

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• My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.

  Mike Tyson

  Giving, Want, Anticipation

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.

  Norman Doidge

  Life, Luxury, Soul

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• Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.

  Betty Goodwin

  Vocabulary, Drawing, Important

  Yolande Racine, Betty Goodwin, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Art Gallery of Ontario (1987). “Betty Goodwin: oeuvres de 1971 à 1987”, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal = Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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• I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, Father, Decision

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2004). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Metaphor, Humans

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

  Pliny the Elder

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.392, Delphi Classics

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• We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Beer, Thinking, Earthquakes

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Aes Triplex'.

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• Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Wise, Brave

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• Starbuck's is going to start selling instant coffee. This is for people who want the quality of Sanka, but want to pay the high Starbuck's price.

  Jay Leno

  Coffee, People, Quality

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• It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

  Ezra Pound

  Emotional, Intellectual, Lifetime

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• It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lying, Speech

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.

  Eric Hoffer

  Technology, Men, Medicine

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 60, 1973.

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• When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Self, Different

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.537, Modern Library

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• The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.

  Donald Barthelme

  Angel, Despair, Fundamentals

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

  Donald Barthelme

  Dripping, Instant Gratification, Seasons

  "The Bed". "Flying to America: 45 More Stories". Book by Donald Barthelme, 2007.

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• A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.

  Theodore Roethke

  Heart, Fire, Lakes

  Theodore Roethke (1975). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, Anchor Books

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• The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Desire, Way

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.55, Hackett Publishing

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