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I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never… — Michael Chabon
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking… — Georgia O'Keeffe
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose… — Anne Rice
I’m a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the… — Michael Chabon
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave… — Alberto Manguel
Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very… — Norton Juster
It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to… — J. G. Ballard
The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For… — Gregory Maguire
Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires… — Andrew Marvell
Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful,… — Otto von Bismarck
And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls,… — Jean Genet
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their… — Haruki Murakami
Can I help you with something?" Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at… — Cassandra Clare
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and… — Hunter S. Thompson
He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride… — Louisa May Alcott
One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk. — Salman Rushdie
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant… — Boyd K. Packer
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench — Samuel Beckett
The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of… — A. S. Byatt
Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will… — Italo Calvino
The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard… — Martin Amis

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