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Transience Quotes
"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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"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
25
"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
25
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud ."
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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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"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die."
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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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"We only pass everything by like a transposition of air."
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"Time is the subtle thief of youth."
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"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."
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"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."
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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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"The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face."
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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."
15
"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."
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"From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star."
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"But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place."
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"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
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"Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone."
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