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• Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

  Philip Sington

  Heart, Desire, Causes

  Philip Sington (2012). “The Valley of Unknowing”, p.62, Random House

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• Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

  Charles Darwin

  Ignorance, Law, Profound

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.3445, Delphi Classics

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• So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lust, Finding Yourself, Desert

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.270, Macmillan

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• I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Movie, Clearing Out, Stuff

  "Tales of Hoffman" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2000.

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• In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Numbers, Age, Connections

  "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

  John Steinbeck

  Drapes, Posts

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.51, Penguin

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• It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Mistake, Opportunity, Second Chance

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.101, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Kissing, Discovery

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Generations, Fleeting, Today

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• You should sit,” Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy. Sascha stared at him. “I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me incapable of standing upright.” “It makes me incapable of reason.

  Nalini Singh

  Pregnancy, Talking, Four

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.346, Penguin

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• A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Years, Joy, And Love

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• Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.

  John Eldredge

  Quality, Limits, Life Is

  John Eldredge (2000). “The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We've Only Dreamed of”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.

  Friedrich Ruckert

  Spring, Heart, Trying

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• Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Hurt, Men, Light

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.12

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• The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Couple, Passion, Hazards

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• Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cells, Prisoner, Solitary

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

  Albert Camus

  Pestilence, Truth Is, Reason

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Dependent, Our Lives

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• All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Use, Speak, Vain

  Nicholas Culpeper (1785). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until this : Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.335

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• However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Character, Stories, Furniture

  "Furniture" by Johnathan Lethem, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

  Hans Berger

  Curves, Average, Order

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• Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Dark, Men

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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• To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

  Thomas Browne

  Memories, Expectations, Lasts

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.43

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• True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.

  Albert Pike

  Heart, Fire, Energy

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• Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

  David Ricardo

  Powerful, Discovery, Doubt

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.11

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