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Transience Quotes
"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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"He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped."
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"We only pass everything by like a transposition of air."
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"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
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"Brief as the lightning in the collied night;That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!"The jaws of darkness do devour it up.So quick bright things come to confusion."
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"They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion."
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"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."
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"Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow."
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"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."
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"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."
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"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
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"The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."
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"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die."
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