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• Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair

  Judith Light

  Hair, Looks, Function

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• fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt

  Jack Kerouac

  Hurt, Winning, Can't Win

  Jack Kerouac (1972). “Visions of Cody”, London : André Deutsch

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• And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but most things are temporal and ephemeral, and you should cultivate that attitude. That joy and love and all the verities are what counts. So I try not to take too many things seriously, and if I find myself caught up in the seriousness of the moment, within a period of time, I'm able to cajole myself out of it.

  William Shatner

  Attitude, Struggle, Joy

  "How William Shatner Changed the World". Documentary, Sci-Fi, 2005.

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• Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Self, Chance

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• Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

  Mary Douglas

  Jobs, Mobility, Stability

  "Group dynamics" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2007.

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• I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Money, Crazy, House

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• Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

  Robert Benton

  Style, Knows

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Fleeting, Sun

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.241, Ballantine Books

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• I don't like ephemeral things; I like things that last forever

  Laura Ashley

  Forever, Lasts

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• The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Writing, Opinion

  Jorge Luis Borges (2000). “Brodie's report: including the prose fiction from In praise of darkness”

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• I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

  Taylor Swift

  Music, Integrity, Believe

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• Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, World, Eternal

  Twitter post from Nov 14, 2017

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• Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Emotional, Law, Space

  Letter to August Derleth (21 November 1930), in "Selected Letters III, 1929-1931" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 220), 1971.

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• On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in a language adapted for discussing trees, rocks, and automobiles -- as well as poetry and emotions.

  F. David Peat

  Reality, Thinking, Rocks

  F. David Peat (1990). “Einstein's moon: Bell's theorem and the curious quest for quantum reality”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Lying, Made

  "Residency on Earth". Art in America, April 1995.

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• Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

  Mira Bartok

  Memories, Wings, Brain

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• ...he took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Eye, Games

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• And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Ocean, Past, Desire

  Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”

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• As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead,
  For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
  Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Tablets, Birth

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.328, Hayes Barton Press

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• My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.

  Kurt Ralske

  Attitude, Thinking, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.

  Edward Teller

  Believe, Talking, Quality

  Edward Teller (1987). “Better a shield than a sword: perspectives on defense and technology”, Free Pr

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• With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

  Mary McCarthy

  Lonely, Deception, Courtship

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Ignorance, Past, House

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• Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Book, Perfect, Mind

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• We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers. But rather than be bound and defeated by our insignificance, we are bold because we exercise our will anyway, despite the ephemeral and delicate presence we have in this desert, on this planet, in this universe.

  Aron Ralston

  Exercise, Desert, Unyielding

  Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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