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You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present.


Francesca Marciano


#present #time #life

To live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future.


Todd Stocker


#focus #future #past #present #life

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.


Lauren Kate


#past #present #wisdom #information

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What "grace" might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way?


Roland Barthes


#memory #past #present #time #biography

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.


Denis de Rougemont


#love #never-ending #passion #possession #present

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.


Siri Hustvedt


#memory #past #present #imagination

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.


Christopher Hitchens


#freethought #philosophy #bullying

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#teenagers

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.


Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


#love

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.


Walt Whitman


#greatest #poem #states #themselves #united






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