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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

One faces the future with one's past.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.