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"Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones."
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"Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones."
"Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future."
"Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing."
"Those who are made can be unmade."
"People always say that digital cameras are much more stable than film cameras, but the truth is that digital cameras, or any kind of digital technology, is one of the most unstable things in the world. A film camera can last decades if you know how to look after it, but digital things can break down instantly. A violent storm, a nuclear bomb, even something as minor as a cracked screen or the releasing of newer models, can make a digital product just a block of useless metal."
"Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?"
"All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion."
"The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was."
"Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time."
"No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
"Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays."
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