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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world…
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to…
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate…
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The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all…
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly…
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with…
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I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
— Juliette Binoche
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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
— Wendell Berry
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
— Umberto Eco
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It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with…
— Walter Rauschenbusch
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Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
— Gelsey Kirkland
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How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of…
— Walter Pater
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All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
— Jacqueline Carey
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should…
— Henry David Thoreau
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My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.
— Jonathan Lethem
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