Victor Pelevin. Yellow arrow (№ 1983)

Every last second with everything that was in it, disappears and no one knows what it will be in the next. Be if at all. And how much can God create one by one the seconds with all that they contain. Nobody, absolutely nobody can guarantee that the next moment will come. And the moment in which we really live is short, we are not even able to have time to catch it and can only remember the last one. But then what actually exists and who we are ourselves?