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“Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.”

Ifs Heart Moments Light Gone Too Much Sadness Shadow Claims Leaving Gladness Dazzle

Author:Scott Hastie

“Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.”

Moments Hours Fate Claims Army Moments Of Life Predestined

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.”

Ifs Moments Would Be Air Strange Okay Claims Tension Freedom Of Religion

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.”

Moments Culture Three Consciousness Christianity Stage Ideals Claims Western Supreme Socialism Primitive Transcendence Western Culture Blackmail Monotheism Sinai Ibsen

Author:George Steiner

“Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very formative moment in my adolescence and impressed me forever with the persona of the prostitute, whom I continue to revere. The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.”

Men Way Moments Culture Girl Forever Claims Victim Feminist Impressed Adolescence Prostitution Persona Conqueror Heroines Alphabet Outlaw Yale

Author:Camille Paglia

“Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.”