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“Confine thyself to the present.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“It's in vain . . . to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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“The truth is that no mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“The true nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, and all that was not present did not exist.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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“Who controls the past . . . controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“what necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer—the Future so much brighter?”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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