Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 18 | 52 | The View more quotes about meaning">meaning of history lies not in the future but in the moment. |
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 18 | 49 | I contented myself with the thought that deeds had been done, which now, whether recollected or not, or however viewed, were irrevocably fixed in their fullness and truth in the fabric of eternity. |
| 18 | 50 | They had been. |
| 18 | 51 | Nothing, nothing ever, could change that. |
| 18 | 52 | The meaning of history lies not in the future but in the moment. |
| 18 | 53 | It is never anywhere but within our grasp. |
| 18 | 54 | And if the history of man, terminated, should turn out to have been but a brief flicker in the midst of unnoticing oblivions let it at least have been worthy of the moment in which it burned. |
| 18 | 55 | But perhaps it would prove to be a spark which would, in time, illuminate a universe. |
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I contented myself with the thought that deeds had been done, which now, whether recollected or not, or however viewed, were irrevocably fixed in their fullness and truth in the fabric of eternity.
They had been.
Nothing, nothing ever, could change that.
The meaning of history lies not in the future but in the moment.
It is never anywhere but within our grasp.
And if the history of man, terminated, should turn out to have been but a brief flicker in the midst of unnoticing oblivions let it at least have been worthy of the moment in which it burned.
But perhaps it would prove to be a spark which would, in time, illuminate a universe.
- (Explorers of Gor)