Disguise Quote by Regis Debray

“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . .…

— Gaston Bachelard

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

The pure present is an unattainable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

— Anonymous

“We of the here-and-now are not for a moment satisfied in the world of time, nor are we bound in it; we are continually…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so…

— Anthony Powell

“That is why it has been repeatedly noticed that the human life is a theatre where the mask show takes place, and we are…

— Arvydas Šliogeris

Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and…

— Antonin Artaud

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and…

— William James

In the Competition for making the future which never comes, a pure illusion, we forget the eternal, precious, timeless now.

— Akash Rajoriya

We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion.…

— Ivan Vladislavic

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

— Anonymous