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Instant Quotes by Alan Lightman
- Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels…
- Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could…
- And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let…
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- A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. — Brigitte Bardot
- They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
- Laughter is an instant vacation. — Milton Berle
- At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant
- False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. — David Bowie
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- It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet… — George Julius Poulett Scrope