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title: "6 Passing Thought Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [“...it occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/it-occurred-to-me-that-perhaps-in-this-city-the-crowd-was-essential/)

[Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/)

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> [She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/she-was-not-an-existence-an-experience-a-passion-a-structure-of/)

[Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/)

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> [I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-van-gogh/i-must-continue-to-follow-the-path-i-take-now-if-i-do-nothing-if-i/)

[Vincent Van Gogh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-van-gogh/)

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> [Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/man-the-individual-consoles-himself-for-his-passing-with-the-thought/)

[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/)

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> [“If we isolate the stray thought, the passing thought," he said, "the thought whose origin is unfathomable, then we begin to understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/if-we-isolate-the-stray-thought-the-passing-thought-he-said-the-2/)

[Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/don-delillo-294_deranged_if-we-isolate-the-stray-thought-the-pass_3022910.jpg)

> [And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burns/and-like-a-passing-thought-she-fled-in-light-away/)

[Robert Burns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burns/)

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