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The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.

The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.
– Jos Saramago

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  2. …all that is carried alongby the stream’s silvery cascade,rhythmically falling from the mountain,carried by its own current–carried where? – John Paul II
  3. ..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. – Jos Saramago
  4. The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein. – Jos Saramago
  5. We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. – Gene Wolfe
  6. We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges. – Gene Wolfe
  7. Reading is probably another way of being in a place. – Jos Saramago
  8. how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist – Jos Saramago
  9. Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. – Jos Saramago
  10. … that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost … – Jos Saramago
  11. Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. – Jos Saramago
  12. but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one. – Jos Saramago
  13. Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning. – Jos Saramago
  14. The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do. – Jos Saramago
  15. what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves – Jos Saramago
  16. Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us. – Jos Saramago
  17. There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close. – Jos Saramago
  18. We’ve all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we’ll be sure to have some tomorrow. – Jos Saramago
  19. There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs – Jos Saramago
  20. One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger. – Jos Saramago
  21. …the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. – Jos Saramago
  22. Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. – Jos Saramago
  23. If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? – Jos Saramago
  24. doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time, – Jos Saramago
  25. Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men. – Jos Saramago
  26. For every physical realm, there is a spiritual realm – Sunday Adelaja
  27. There is a realm in which miracles are possible and do take place. The door to this realm is the belief in all possibilities and YOU are the key. – Vivian Amis
  28. If measuring by this earthly realm’s time then it’s been years but in the unseen realm above known as Vehaven, it has been but a moment. – Madison Thorne Grey
  29. In this instant of danger they realized they were each other’s reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being. – Anas Nin
  30. Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the day I became a mother. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  31. The instant is not in time — time is in the instant. – John Barbour
  32. This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream. – JeanPaul Sartre
  33. Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go back to. – Jos Lus Peixoto
  34. She carried a thousand lights inside her heart, and a thousand lights carried her. – Vatsal Surti
  35. Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic. – Ursula K Le Guin
  36. In a civilization when love is gone we turn to justice and when justice is gone we turn to power and when power is gone we turn to violence. – Kare Anderson
  37. Memory of the knife will be gone when the flesh is gone. – John Steinbeck
  38. …why, I’ve just this instant found out… that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days. – Jules Verne
  39. Men forget everything women remember everything. That’s why men need instant replay in sports. They’ve already forgotten what’s happened. – Rita Rudner
  40. After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on. – Marie Lu

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