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• Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Fall, Giving

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• People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

  Nora Roberts

  Relationship, Work, People

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Vision In White”, p.203, Penguin

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• "All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Words Of Wisdom, Suffering

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• Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Mean, Two

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• It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

  Lisa Unger

  Zero, Children, Fall

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• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  New York, Children, Men

  MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1854). “`SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS”, p.31

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• I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Stars, Mean

  "The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1994.

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• There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Degrees, Fixture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

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• The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Taken, Home, House

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Addiction, Revolution

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• A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Squares, Years, Space

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.588, Modern Library

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• So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes.

  Sylvia Plath

  Jobs, Reading, Fighting

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

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• Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.

  Diane Keaton

  Moving, Cameras, Immortality

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• Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

  Jean Paul

  Change, Wisdom, Strong

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• Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

  Timothy Keller

  Marriage, Real, Desire

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.55, Penguin

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• Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Kindness, Sadness

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Past, Fossils, Instinct

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• There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.

  George Orwell

  Safety, Soul, Together

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1256, Penguin UK

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• He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing, as if it were trying to demonstrate its permanence and show him it would still be there if he ever wanted to return. That promise was the best and only thing he could ask of it.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Moving, Cities, Bye

  Matthew J. Kirby (2012). “The Clockwork Three”, p.372, Scholastic Inc.

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• Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Rain, Book

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• We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Earthquakes, Sun, Wonder

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• "Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.

  Jack Williamson

  Mean, Past, Ideas

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• I loved rain for making home seem home more deeply, and I suspect that is why, from as far back as I can remember, I also loved those books I read and the people I met in them and the worlds they opened up to me. Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Book, Rain

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• Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.

  Tom Robbins

  Progress, Fundamentals, Evolution

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.69, Bantam

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• If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Moving, Differences, Balance

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.48, Rodale

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