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“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
“For one moment our lives met—our souls touched.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.” Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
“Through hyper-space, that unimaginable region that was neither space nor time, matter nor energy, something nor nothing, one could traverse the length of the Galaxy in the interval between two neighboring instants of time.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“Think how you love me . . . I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“But an infinity of passions may be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a small space.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“Forever is composed of nows” John Green, Paper Towns

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