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Since the Present is but an imaginary point without an awareness of the immediate past, it is necessary to define that awareness. Not for the first time will Space intrude if I say that what we are aware of as “Present” is the constant building up of the Past, its smoothly and relentlessly rising level. How meager! How magic!
Ada, or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
And I thought how easy life is for those who merely live it without hoping to understand it; without hoping to “decode,” classify and analyze it; without hoping to acquire a quasi-invulnerable meta-life which is the life of the mind and not the triumphant life of the body. Breathe in, breathe out.
High Crime Area
Joyce Carol Oates
He had a strong feeling then of the wood protecting him, of nature bending to his will.
The Golden Key
Marian Womack
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