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• Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

  James Joyce

  Birthday, Passion, Other Worlds

  James Joyce, Laurence Davies (1993). “Dubliners”, p.160, Wordsworth Editions

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• Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

  Raul Julia

  Becoming One, Worry, Cuban Cigars

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• Fashions fade, style is eternal.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Hair, Clothes

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• Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Football, Integrity

  "NFL All-Pro Ray Lewis". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 11, 2011.

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• In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Nature, Accomplishment, Miracle

  "The Wisdom of Wilderness". Life magazine, December 22, 1967.

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• For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Time, Stars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.282, Penguin

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• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Address to joint meeting of Congress, 19 Apr. 1951

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• Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Goodbye, Military, Light

  1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman, 19 Apr.

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• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  Ian Mcewan

  Feelings, Lighters

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• Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

  Jon Meacham

  Ideas, Environmental, Spheres

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• A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reflection, Consciousness, Pale

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• When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

  John Irving

  Death, Grief, Loss

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Heart, Men

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1994). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, Thorndike Pr

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• Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

  Marcel Proust

  Desire, Possession

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• It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Heart, Names

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.296, Pan Macmillan

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• Most films that I do, whether successful or not, just fade away. They have their moment in the sun, then they are gone. 'Trainspotting' did not, and especially with journalists. So whenever I launched a new film, I'd end up talking about 'Trainspotting.'

  Danny Boyle

  Successful, Talking, Trainspotting

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

  Anthony Trollope

  Reading, Support You, Long

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• People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

  Allison Pearson

  Thinking, Talking, Years

  Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

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• ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast-- But I remain the same, up to the last! ROXANE: I have marred your life--I, I! CYRANO: You blessed my life! Never on me had rested woman's love. My mother even could not find me fair: I had no sister; and, when grown a man, I feared the mistress who would mock at me. But I have had your friendship--grace to you A woman's charm has passed across my path.

  Edmond Rostand

  Mother, Blessed, Love You

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• And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Fall, Autumn

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• In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Notebook, Summer

  "The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.

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• I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away

  Nicholas Sparks

  Heart, Watches, Message In A Bottle

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Food, Drinking, Beer

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget.

  John Keats

  Forget, Far Away

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 3

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• Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.

  John Milton

  Flower, Men, Rivers

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Lost”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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