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Um esta¤   sempre no escuro, so¤   no u¤ ltimo derradeiro e¤   que clareiam a sala. Oneisalwaysinthedark, and it isonlyatthelast moment that they turn on the lights in the room.

—Guimara‹  es Rosa,Joa‹  o

The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract. 306

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Bien choisir son moment et se taire, serait-ce le seul moyen d'avoir e"  tre et habitat? To carefully choose one'smoment and keep quiet, isthis the only way one can be and live?

—Beckett, Samuel

Consider every moment past A thread from life's frayed mantle cast.

—Abu'l-'Ala¤   Al-Ma'arri

The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human historyand cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.

—Bellow, Saul

Eternity was in that moment.

—Congreve,William

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

—Buck, Pearl ne¤  e Sydenstricker

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

—Tennyson

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly† Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

The history of a battle is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost; but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference.

—Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Was man auch sagen mag, der glu«  cklichsteAugenblick des Glu« c klichen ist doch der seines Einschlafens wie der unglu«  cklichste des Unglu«  cklichen der seines Erwachens. Whatever we may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is that of his falling asleep, just as the unhappiest moment of the unhappy man is that of his awakening.

—Schopenhauer, Arthur

  Das Leben ist Nur ein Moment, derTod ist auch nur einer. Life is but a moment. Death is but a moment, too.

—Schiller, Friedrich

   We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

—Shaw, George Bernard

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

But now that age comes A moment of joy is harder and harder to get.

—Po Chu«  -I

I am no prophetöand here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovelyapparition sent To be a moment's ornament.

—Wordsworth,William

Il y a toujours un moment o  u' la curiosite¤   devient un pe¤  che¤  , et le diable s'est toujours mis du co"  te¤   des savants. There is always a moment when curiosity becomes a sin and the devil is always on the side of the learned.

—Thibault

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment whiteöthen melts for ever.

—Burns, Robert

A naked moment in politics.

—Gergen, David Richmond

No more distressing moment can ever face a British Government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.

—Tuchman, BarbaraW(ertheim)

Not for a moment could I now behold A smiling sea, and be what I have been.

—Wordsworth,William

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

—Greene, (Henry) Graham

La plupart des gens ne meurent qu'au dernier moment; d'autres commencent et s'y prennent vingt ans d'avance et parfois davantage. Ce sont les malheureux de la terre. Most people only die at the last moment; others begin earlyand take twenty years and sometimes more. These are the most miserable people on earth.

—Destouches

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.

—Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

—Lucas, George

If I can rejoice for a moment, Death at an early age would still be a long life.

—Yu«  an Mei

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is a struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world standsmoment by moment on the razor-edge ofdangerand must be fought foröwhether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.

—Feininger, Lyonel

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

—Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.

—Sandburg, Carl

  The world's best moment is a calm hour passed In listening to a friend who can talk well.

—Abu'l-'Ala¤   Al-Ma'arri

The Socialist papers†came out full tothethroat of well- printed matter†admirable and straightforward expositions of the doctrines and practice of Socialism, free from hasteand spiteand hard words†with a kind of May-day freshness amidst the worryand terror of the moment.

—Morris,William