“Was living together a step toward the future or just a way to continue the present?”
Gabby Holland, Chapter 5, p. 58
2000s, The Choice (2007)
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“Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to the present.”
La vraie générosité envers l'avenir consiste à tout donner au présent.
Part 5: Thought at the Meridian (p. 313)
The Rebel (1951)

Nuremberg trials, (31 August 1945)

“On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step”
Source: The Wasted Vigil

Source: "Some Perplexities about time: with an attempted solution" (1925), p. 149. as cited in: Jonathan Gorman, "The transmission of our understanding of historical time." Historia Social y de la Educación 1.2 (2012): 129-152.

Variant: It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Source: Dune

“Avoid the past, live the present, anticipate the future.”
Original: (it) Evita il passato, vivi il presente, anticipa il futuro.
Source: prevale.net