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«So, often in the courseOf life's few fleeting years,A single pleasure costsThe soul a thousand tears.»
Author: Francis William Bourdillon
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a thousand, costs, course, fleeting, fleets, The Fleet
«The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.»
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Photographer)
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Creativity
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box, brief, camera, fleeting, give and take, instant, lasts, lightning, prey, preyed, preying, preys, trap
«Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.»
Author: Paul Cezanne
| Keywords:
capture, fleeting, forgetting, plate, recording, sensitive, The Image
«Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion»
Author: Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
| About:
Love
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First Love, fleeting, infatuation, Infatuations, purely, sensual
«Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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autobiography, discontinuities, discontinuity, extensive, fleeting, Here I Am, recollection, reminiscence, reminiscences, The Sequence
«Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
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brilliance, comet, Comets, fleeting, fleets, lovelier, lovely, marriage, pleasures, sensual, sunset, sunsets, The Fleet, tranquility
«No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.»
Author: Andre Breton
(Critic, Editor, Founder, Poet)
| Keywords:
conventional, exaltation, fleeting, renounce
«The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.»
«The life of man is a dubious experiment. It is a tremendous phenomenon only in numerical terms. Individually, it is so fleeting, so insufficient, that it is literally a miracle that anything can exist and develop at all.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
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dubious, fleeting, individually, insufficient, numerical
«The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.»
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