And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.
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Anonymous
When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.
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Jeff Tikari
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Bertolt Brecht
Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.
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Saul Bellow
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but...
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Margaret Atwood
More Quotes By Henri Bergson
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.
Long before being artists, we are artisans; and all fabrication, however rudimentary, lives on likeness and repetition, like the natural geometry which serves as its fulcrum. Fabrication works on models which it sets out to reproduce; and even when it invents, it proceeds, or imagines...