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Moments Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been…
- Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One…
- I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.
- Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet…
- Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat…
- The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives…
- He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room…
- The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.
- There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or…
- The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a…
- It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.
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- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
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- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. — Paul Auster
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba