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The word “now” is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. – Arthur Miller, After the Fall, 1964

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Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?… If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. – Epictetus

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. – Samuel Johnson

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The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. – Lord Chesterfield

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake. – Marie Ray

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Justice is the truth in action. – Joseph Joubert

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Dr. Richard Bentley (1662-1742)… is said one day, on finding his son reading a novel, to have remarked—’Why read a book that you cannot quote?’— a saying which affords an amusing illustration of the nature and object of his literary studies. – Cyclopædia of English Literature edited by Robert Chambers, 1844

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Kindness and intelligence dont always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. – Fraude

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