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“It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.”

Past Remember Beauty Comfort Instant Favour Habitual Remembering Her

Book:The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

“To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.”

Past Happiness Joy Achieve Positive Atheism Immortality Instant Anomalies

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it before. It may be a backhand he uses, one that he may never have used before in that circumstance. His play is a fresh integration of his world at the instant of action. A really great scientist has the whole past at his disposal. At any instant he is rebuilding the world, molecule by molecule, in his subconscious. That is what you want in an athlete or a scientist.”

“When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.”

Has Beens Different Self Past Habit Impression Enthusiasm Former Instant Intensity Fades Sensibility Vivid Stimulus Momentary Drunkards Insignificance Times Past

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos.”

Eye Past Stars Strange Eternity Lays Depth Instant Cosmos Makers Splendor Vistas

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.”

Past Dies Instant

Author:Lauren Bacall

“We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.”

Past Remember Instant

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town