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• Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

  Phyllis Rose

  Love Is, Thinking, Refusal

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• "There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

  Charles Dickens

  Jobs, Words Of Wisdom, Deception

  Charles Dickens (1873). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.477

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• The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Soul, Body, Disease

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• Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Dream, Peace, Results

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• No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Women, Long, Together

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.356

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• Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

  Seneca the Younger

  Beauty, Rely Upon, Fleeting

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• The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

  Mason Cooley

  Confusion, Mastery, Unhappiness

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• Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.

  Adyashanti

  Hurt, Reality, Love Is

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• I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Life, God, Letting Go

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Feet, People

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.184, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Government, Desirable

  Bernard Berenson (1952). “Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944”

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• One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Pleasure, Uncertain

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• It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Space, People, Old Friends

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.44, Prestwick House Inc

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• Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked.

  Robert Thurman

  Regret, Attachment, Practice

  Robert Thurman (2011). “The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between”, p.53, Bantam

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• AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION, AS A MOMENTARY, PASSIONATE WISH TO GRASP INTUITIVELY AND AT A STROKE ALL THE LAWS OF THIS WORLD-ITS BEAUTY AND UGLINESS, ITS COMPASSION AND CRUELTY, ITS INFINITY AND ITS LIMITATIONS.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Unique, Compassion

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• There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.

  Edward Whymper

  Grief, Thinking, Climbing

  1871 Scrambles Amongst the Alps.

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• Violence often brings about momentary results.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Violence, Results

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Dark, Color, People

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• At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.

  Sandy Gingras

  Beach, Moving, Jumping

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• If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, War, Night

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

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• History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

  Victor Hugo

  Reality, Men, Goal

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• Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fear, Loneliness, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.29, Anchor

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• in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

  Belle de Jour

  Instance, Oneself

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• From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.

  Peter Straub

  Eye, Emotional, Goal

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• In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable.

  Anita Diament

  Powerful, Flower, Night

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