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In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in… — Muriel Barbery
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments… — Corita Kent
In quick succession, Qhuinn reviewed his answers: No, of course not, the knife was acting of its own volition. I was actually trying to stop… — J R Ward
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the… — Janet Frame
What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits. — Samuel Beckett
Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear… — Milan Kundera
...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of… — Vladimir Nabokov
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again. — Gustave Flaubert
I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head… — Yann Martel
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her. — David Nicholls
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine -… — Robert Cormier
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. — Swami Vivekananda
But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to… — Sylvia Plath
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is… — Howard Zinn
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting… — Victor Hugo
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable,… — Jasper Fforde
That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely. — P.G. Wodehouse
Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence… — Delphine de Vigan
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days… — Cassandra Clare
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which… — J. G. Holland
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an… — Alan Lightman
Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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