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  • Marcus Aurelius Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • George Santayana In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Mario Vargas Llosa No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist (1936 - )
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  • Florence King Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Denis Diderot Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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