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Ephemeral Quotes

"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire I give it to you not that you may remember time but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."

"The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it."

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf"

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days"

"Life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last"

"In this short Life that only lasts an hour how much how little is within our power"

"It is evident that everything is in a continual flux, and it is as impossible to find any certain individual in the world as it is to take up any definite quantity of water in the ocean."

"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long."

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."

"My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life"

"The true picture of the past flits by "

"We do not retain the precious past, no matter"

"In itself a wall on which an artist works so that it disappears is a marvelous creation"

"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction"

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