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No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them. - Alan W. Watts


He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. - Saint Francis De Sales


It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. - Charles Robert Darwin


A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour. - Victor Hugo


I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. - Pearl S. Buck


Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. - Pearl S. Buck


It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius. - Antonin Artaud


How small a portion of our life is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that have gone past. In things that are present, even that is too often absorbed in vague determination to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time. - Charles Caleb Colton


Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. - William Joseph Brennan, Jr.

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