To-day alone was real. Never was man brought into contact with reality save through the evanescent emotions and sensations of that single moment, that infinitesimal fraction of a second, which was passing now - and it was in the insignificance of this moment, precisely, that religious persons must believe. (James Branch Cabell)

To-day alone was real. Never was man brought into contact with reality save through the evanescent emotions and sensations of that single moment, that infinitesimal fraction of a second, which was passing now - and it was in the insignificance of this moment, precisely, that religious persons must believe.

James Branch Cabell

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