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1 " In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke. "
― Hermann Hesse , Steppenwolf
2 " We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal. "
― Alice Hoffman , The Foretelling
3 " Coyotes move within a landscape of attentiveness. I have seen their eyes in the creosote bushes and among mesquite trees. They have watched me. And all the times that I saw no eyes, that I kept walking and never knew, there were still coyotes. When I have seen them trot away, when I have stepped from the floorboard of my truck, leaned on the door, and watched them as they watched me over their shoulders, I have been aware for that moment of how much more there is. Of how I have only seen only an instant of a broad and rich life. "
― , The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
4 " In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon. In all the rush and fervor, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel. "
― Ray Bradbury , Fahrenheit 451
5 " The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses. "
