#moment

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. ↗

— Luis Cernuda

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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. ↗

— Carl Jung

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That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular. ↗

— Peter Hook

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It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

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The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. ↗

— Peter Jackson

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. ↗

— Louis Kahn

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