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«Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.»
«The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.»
«One day I'm a prostitute and the next day I'm a nun. Where else could you get instant conversion like that?»
«There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.»
«Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.»
«The infinite is in the finite of every instant»
Author: Zen Proverb | Keywords: finite, infinite, instant
«There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.»
«Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.»
«Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.»
«The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.»

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