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• I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Paint, Effects, Ifs

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• Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths to turn people into icons, nor did he presume to show their “true nature” in something so transient as a photograph. Instead, he used photography's special qualities to suggest intimate things about his subjects, things that cannot be put into words, and may not even be possible to put into pictures.

  Sebastian Smee

  Photography, Icons, People

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• Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Words Of Wisdom, Trying, Diligence

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• I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Play, Identity, Different

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• Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

  Duane Michals

  Fashion, Art, Two

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• This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Self Improvement

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.76, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Mistake, Law, Psychology

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• A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Writing, Careers

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Years, Water

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.593, Delphi Classics

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• He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.

  Francoise Sagan

  Commitment, Views, Ideas

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you’re in heaven, bored rigid

  Steve Aylett

  Bored, Heaven, Attention

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• At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an Idea. Another person. An idea of a person.

  Meg Rosoff

  Ideas, Despair, Events

  Meg Rosoff (2008). “What I Was”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Wise, Philosophical, Fate

  "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.

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• Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

  Orson Scott Card

  Grief, Thinking, Ungrateful

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• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Marriage, Wedding

  Getting Married preface (1911)

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• There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

  Robert Plant

  Real, Years, People

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• The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Light, Joy

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 11, 2016

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• What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Sky, Differences

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• The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others as mere transient meteors, doomed to soon fall and be forgotten, while its own luminaries are to shine steadily into immortality.

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Writing, Light

  Washington Irving (1991). “Bracebridge Hall ; Tales of a Traveller ; The Alhambra”, p.467, Library of America

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• The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Yield, Joy, Desire

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• We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.

  Bernard Lown

  Inspiring, Past, Humanity

  Bernard Lown's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.

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• Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Success, Real, Lying

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• Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

  Julian Baggini

  Giving, Events, Arms

  "Why the white cliffs of Dover are so special" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• The word book acted as a transient stimulus

  Charlotte Bronte

  Book, Stimulus

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

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• Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently honoured and carefully maintained. Let us regard the forests as a gift, entrusted to any of us only for transient care, to be surrendered to posterity as an unimpaired property, increased in riches and augmented in blessings, to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation.

  Ferdinand von Mueller

  Blessing, Generations, Inheritance

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