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Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural… — Charles Baudelaire
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the… — Virginia Woolf
It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting… — Ahdaf Soueif
It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly… — Diana Gabaldon
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns;… — John Locke
What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks.… — Howard Thurman
To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved… — Maggie Stiefvater
Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more… — Shan Sa
Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold… — Aimee Bender
On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world.… — Ben Sherwood
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity… — Tom Robbins
Pause for a moment and check where your own heart and thoughts are. Are you focused on the things that matter most? How you spend… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design… — Connie Willis
I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be. — Debbie Macomber
The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I… — A. E. Housman
Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny,… — Trenton Lee Stewart
...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment. — Nicholas Sparks
Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of… — John Ashbery
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such… — Franz Kafka
Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those… — Frederick Buechner
Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely… — Arundhati Roy
I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair? — Marian Keyes
Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found… — Marcus Aurelius
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to… — Brandon Mull
You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting… — Franz Kafka

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