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Moment Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter…
- I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
- I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love…
- Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for…
- It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are…
- Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
- For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
- The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look…
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- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
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