"The past not merely is not fugitive, it…" — Marcel Proust

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• Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal… — Charles Baudelaire
• Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you… — Rudy Giuliani
• Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a… — Barbara Kruger
• The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst… — George Will
• Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a… — Vikram Seth
• Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy… — Henry Van Dyke
• What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The gods are fugitive guests of literature. — Roberto Calasso
• The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in… — Claude Monet
• In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate,… — Adrian Goldsworthy
• Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly.… — Richard Halliburton

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