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The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

Kafka on the Shore
Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.

Ignorance
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream
Remember that man's life lies all within this present; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen
Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and tomorrow we may never see
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this, which has already come and is ours
Today is yesterday's pupil
Each day is the scholar of yesterday
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