"I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife"
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"Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme."
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"Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together."
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"Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause."
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"The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting."
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"You have no idea How much you do for mankind When you love God unconditionally Even for a fleeting moment."
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"The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing."
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"Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new."
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"Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years."
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"You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away."
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"The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife."
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"Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average."
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"Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last."
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