They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding and accord. This highest moment would now remain as point of comparison to torment them later on when all natural imperfections would disintegrate it.
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MINDY KALING That moment where time freezes and for a second everything seems perfect... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams... ROBERTO BOLAñO …Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. T... PAT CONROY Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could ... GILLIAN FLYNN Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect. NICHOLAS SPARKS Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that mome... JEFFREY BELL I think it's the perfect moment for all the Austrian team. I can't believe it. BENJAMIN RAICH In proper meditation, we learn to watch our thoughts. We can then consciously live in this moment th... HOWARD MANN He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunti... AMOR TOWLES It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it. Had I known, had I cherished this gi... ORHAN PAMUK I've been preaching getting a half-point for two years now. So many times in the Walker Cup, you can... BOB LEWIS It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways... C.S. LEWIS When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony servic... D'ANGELO What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment? HUNTER S. THOMPSON Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, i... THOMAS JEFFERSON Cindy Sheehan had one glorious shining moment and she took advantage of it and the peace movement to... STEPHEN HESS I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for... PETER T. KING He felt a swelling of pride. Ridiculous, of course. He had endangered the kindgdom — how would peo... BRANDON SANDERSON Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the d... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We have met our objectives and it is a natural moment for HP to conclude our relationship. We wish t... CATHY LYONS A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always t... ABBEY LEE KERSHAW This really was a very bright moment on a very dark day. They inspire all of us to take responsibili... ANDREA MEDITCH Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment ... ROALD DAHL Needs can be fulfilled, but desires cannot be. Desire is a need gone mad. Needs are simple, they com... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH ..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and ... MALCOLM GLADWELL My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really not... NINA JACOBSON Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they... DAVID LYNCH This moment in Internet history will be gone in a blink. We may soon look back on it as a charming, ... DEBORAH FALLOWS I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a rep... GEORGE W. BUSH Life is neither about expecting perfection from each other, nor waiting for the perfect moment. It i... SHAFEEQ QURESHI Don't wait for the perfect thought, or the perfect moment; because perfection only occurs after acti... ARCHANA CHAURASIA KAPOOR It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and comes ... MALCOLM GLADWELL Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. ALEXANDER POPE Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're... DAVID LYNCH He would like to sell a big lump of it at very low prices, ... This is a moment in history where the... MICHAEL LEVY For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhil... HERMANN MAIER Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries. SISTER CORITA KENT Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. CORITA KENT Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. CORITA KENT Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries CORITA KENT The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easi... OTTO BAUER The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two pe... ROBBIE FOWLER I would say, that certainly, this was all of a sudden. I would say there was some concern. I think t... 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Where people fail is t... ANAïS NIN The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. ANAïS NIN She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t... ANAïS NIN For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to ... ANAïS NIN The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. ANAïS NIN When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time h... ANAïS NIN You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence... ANAïS NIN Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their m... ANAïS NIN A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such o... ANAïS NIN I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a foo... ANAïS NIN You cannot do any more for me," I said. "Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever... ANAïS NIN In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p... ANAïS NIN We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are ANAïS NIN Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are... ANAïS NIN I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emp... ANAïS NIN I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. ANAïS NIN Pain is something to master, not to wallow in. ANAïS NIN [Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful... ANAïS NIN Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself. ANAïS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ANAïS NIN I write emotional algebra. ANAïS NIN She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I ... ANAïS NIN The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ANAIS NIN The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that ... ANAIS NIN How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it... ANAIS NIN Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds o... ANAIS NIN Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. ANAIS NIN I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ANAIS NIN There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. ANAIS NIN What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ANAIS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ANAIS NIN Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ANAIS NIN The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ANAIS NIN Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It d... ANAIS NIN