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“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only.” Albert Camus, “The Plague” - 1947

“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“It can only take a moment . . . to waste the rest of your life...” Chuck Palahniuk, “Snuff” - 2008

“Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“Why us for that matter? Why anything ? Because this moment simply is.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“The truth is that no mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.” Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” - 1759

“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering?” Albert Camus, “The Plague” - 1947

“That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled—a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell-burst, the plummet of the car from the bridge.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“Go mindless. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” Oprah Winfrey, “What I Know For Sure” - 2014

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.” John Steinbeck, “Of Mice and Men” - 1937

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy—one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tender Is the Night” - 1934

“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

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Slaughterhouse-Five (3)
The Plague (2)
The Home and the World (2)
This Side of Paradise (1)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1)
Fight Club (1)
The Blind Assassin (1)
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1)
Nausea (1)
What I Know For Sure (1)
Of Mice and Men (1)
Tender Is the Night (1)
Snuff (1)