"Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia."

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Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.33, Macmillan

Siri Hustvedt

#Past Quotes #Past Present And Future Quotes #Amnesia Quotes

“Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?”
“We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.”
“I talked to Beyonce and she wants to learn how to speak Arabic and she wants to jump out of an airplane. I don't want to do that. I just don't want to wash my hair every day.”
“Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.”
“I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.”
“In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It's like you're watching models. You see a little of everything right by you.”
“real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.”

Source : Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). “Glenarvon (1816).”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint
“Just as an earthly garden needs constant attention, so, too, does our spiritual garden. When we first begin our journey of spirituality our garden is filled with all sorts of interesting items--it was not, after all, a fallow place before we sought to investigate what might be there and what we could possibly put in it. Everyone's spiritual garden is different, because each individual is unique.”

Source : Silver RavenWolf (2005). “A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft”, p.76, Llewellyn Worldwide

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