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• Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

  ― John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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• Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

  ― Konstantin Stanislavisky
  Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• acquisition
• attachment
• subtleties
• knowledge
• material
• poignant

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