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I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking… — Georgia O'Keeffe
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world. — Robert Frost
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even… — C.S. Lewis
I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the… — P.G. Wodehouse
The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long… — Haruki Murakami
Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s… — Amy Jenkins
…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that… — Bell Hooks
He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just… — Paul Bowles
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death? — P.D. James
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period… — Robert A. Heinlein
At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar… — David Sheff
people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character — Chad Kultgen
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an… — Rumi
She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard… — George Orwell
I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present. — Meg Rosoff
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the… — Randy Alcorn
. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we… — Judith Martin
He felt a momentary pang of regret that he had not spent more time with his beloved wife. But it passed when he remembered that… — Dave Barry
Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's… — Wallace Stevens
In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue… — Anita Diament
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.… — Peter Straub
in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself! — Belle de Jour
Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease… — Sylvia Plath
I've never been afraid of the dark. I'm more afraid of the day, of people. I love the night. The solitude. Well, I don't love… — Julie Anne Peters

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