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It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.
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Always remember present perfect, grasshopper.
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We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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The present is an eternal now.
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The present tense of regret is indecision.
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starting at a certain point, the future is only a need to live in the past. To immediately redo the grammatical tenses.
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This here will be the future tense and you will be able to do anything you will like in it.
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A time past is an essence gone
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Confidence is the present tense of hope.
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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
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The past rolls forward to touch the present hour.
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While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now.
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Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.
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You must be present in the present to make it a present.-RVM
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We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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Through the eyes of the brave, the future makes past tense perfect sense.
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Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
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Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.
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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
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The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past.
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The present is the key to the past
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The present is the instant in which the future crumbles into the past.
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One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.
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This palace,' he had said, 'is a small city, past lying close to present like one shoe next to another. If you look at them in a mirror, left becomes right, present becomes past ...
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The past is not dead - it isn't even past
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It's important to people in the Land-of-Almost-Awake that it should be this way, because they believe that nothing really ever completely dies. It just turns into a story, undergoes a little shift in grammar, changes tense from 'now' to 'then'. A
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The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
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The way those old memories kept bubbling to the surface in the present tense was disturbing. It was as if the past had never died; as if on some level of time's great tower, everything was still happening.
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For the past, rightly understood, is no mere past
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It was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you.
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Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.
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The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.
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The present is burthened too much with the past.
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The present is a text, and the past its interpretation.
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The present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.
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The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.
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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
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I am in the present and only the present matters to me
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Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.
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You didn't promise to kill me," Wayne said, pulling on his socks. "You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.
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The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
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The past exists only in your
mind," he said. "Likewise, the future exists only in your
mind because it has not happened.
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Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any.
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The past is in the past
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But here it is. So pick the bones from that. 'I think we need another tense for dreaming in,' I said, which made an old drunk shake his head and smile.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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Human existence basically is--a never to be completed imperfect tense.
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The present is the point of power.
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The past has to inform the present.
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.
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The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.
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The past and the future are always present within us.
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Every moment is an edict spoken by its past. The past is the real tyranny.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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The present is the only thing we can control and is the only thing we can change.
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The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.
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A man's conscience shouts so much more loudly in the past tense than it ever manages to achieve in the present.
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The present is intelligible only as a commentary upon and response to the past in which the past, if necessary and if possible, is corrected and transcended,
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Some things belong to the past.
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A spectator would conclude that I was living in the past. But I was very much living in the present. My present.
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Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage.
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Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a moment; then it belongs for ever to the past.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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The past no longer exists, and the future does not yet exist," Morik reasoned. "So live in the present and enjoy it, my friend. Enjoy every moment.
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He past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?..
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.
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There's no past tense when you lose someone, Jed. You just keep on loving them.
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Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
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A present moment in time, is defined by the observation of our actions, as much as it is undefined by the intent of our inaction.
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In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection.
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You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
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A moment will pass, but a movement will last.
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For him there is no present; there is only the past of what has been formulated and seen and the future of what has been formulated and not seen. The present is surrendered to the past and the future.
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Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses
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We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
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To remember was an act not of excavation but of self-creation in the present tense.
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The past is getting clearer and clearer
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Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
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The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.
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So the tiresome minutes and decades of minutes dragged away, until at last our tense forms filmed over with a dulled consciousness,
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the past is only the future with the lights on.
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Photographs are so strange; they are always in the present tense, everyone captured in a moment that will never come again.
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The past informs the present.
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When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.
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Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now. The
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The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.
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I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene of enclosure made all precious by its frame.
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Time is but a mode of thought
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The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ...
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For Nautzera there was no present, only the clamour of a harrowing past and the threat of a corresponding future. For Nautzera, the present had receded to a point, had become the precarious fulcrum whereby history leveraged destiny. A mere formality.
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Was and will make me ill, I take a gramme and only am. (Lenina)