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• Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.

  Debora Spar

  Life And Love, Lying, Responsibility

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• I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will not let go. I do not accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it...forever. Or at least I'm going to try.'

  Jason Silva

  Letting Go, Thinking, Forever

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• Quien goza de paz interior no se siente tan quebrantado por el fracaso como inflado por el éxito. Es capaz de vivir plenamente sus experiencias en el marco de una vasta y profunda serenidad, pues comprende que las experiencias son efímeras y que es inútil aferrarse a ellas.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Broken, Profound, Serenity

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

  Jason Silva

  Forever, Trying, Moments

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• With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

  Mary McCarthy

  Lonely, Deception, Courtship

  Mary McCarthy (1975). "The company she keeps", Not Avail

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• As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

  Craig Owens

  Photography, Art, Desire

  Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson (1994). “Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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• Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Guerra, Libro, Años

  "An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. Preface, p. 10, 1987.

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• My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.

  Gae Aulenti

  Book, Home, Advice

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• It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Yo, Sentimientos

  "Delphine". Libro de Madame de Stael, 1802.

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• We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral.

  Wendell Berry

  Suicidal, Sake, Financial

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.201, Counterpoint

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• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.

  Albert Camus

  Drama, Flower, Passion

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• Un portal mágico se abrió dentro de mi mente y me condujo a un mundo asombroso. [...] Antes de ese momento había adivinado, pero nunca había sabido con tanta positividad, que el mundo es extremadamente grande y que el sufrimiento y el trabajo son compañeros y compañeros de guerra no sólo del cretense, sino de todo hombre. [...] Que por medio de la poesía todo este sufrimiento y esfuerzo podía transformarse en sueño; por mucho que existiera lo efímero, la poesía podía inmortalizarlo convirtiéndolo en canto.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Sueño, Canción, Significado

  "Informe a Greco". Libro de Nikos Kazantzakis, trad. de P. A. Bien, Faber and Faber Limited, "Naxos", Cap. 11, p. 96, 1973.

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• Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?

  Florence Earle Coates

  Age, Thank God, Privilege

  The New York Times, December 10, 1916.

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• Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

  Charles Durning

  Wall, Night, Acting

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Charles Durning". Playbill On-Line Interview, www.playbill.com. February 22, 2000.

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• La identidad es una bolsa y una mordaza. Sin embargo, existe para mí con toda la fuerza de una enfermedad mortal. Evidentemente estoy aquí, soy una mente y un cuerpo. Decir que no hay pruebas de que mi cuerpo exista sería artificioso y engañoso, y si mi mente es más efímera, menos demostrable, la solución de ser un escritor con libros sólidos (tocables, rompibles, quemables) es lo más cerca que nadie ha llegado a una respuesta perfecta.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Book, Perfect, Mind

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• Qué frágil y efímera es la sustancia material de las cartas, lo que hace que su propia supervivencia sea tan arriesgada. La letra impresa tiene su propia permanencia, aunque no merezca mucho la pena conservarla, pero ¡una carta! Transmitida por un medio de transporte incierto, sobre el que el remitente no tiene ningún control; confiada a una sola persona que puede ser descuidada o poco apreciativa; dejada a merced de las generaciones futuras, de familias tal vez ansiosas por suprimir el pasado, de los accidentes de mudanzas y limpiezas de casas, o de la mera ignorancia. Cuántas veces han sobrevivido por pura casualidad.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Ignorancia, Pasado, Casa

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• While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Water, Dying

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• The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Writing, Ideas

  Jorge Luis Borges (1978). "El informe del doctor Brodie", Plume Books

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• Nietzsche ... sostiene que todo lo que transcurre en la vida de una sociedad es efímero y banal, salvo por la presencia de grandes personalidades, de hombres como Goethe ... que parecen forjar sus propios destinos, que parecen moverse sin ser obstaculizados por esas cargas de la existencia que impiden a la mayoría de los hombres elevarse por encima de las vicisitudes de su trabajo cotidiano.

  John Carroll

  Moving, Destiny, Men

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.76, Taylor & Francis

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• The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.

  Riordan Roett

  Country, Latin, Goal

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• When a writer with a voice as good as Richard Christian Matheson's tells you something, you have no choice but to listen. In THE RITUAL OF ILLUSION the voices are legion, and the gaps between their testimonies drag us closer to understanding the darkly beating heart of all our, ephemeral, transfixing dreams. Dark, subtle, horrifically funny.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Christian, Dream, Heart

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• He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.

  Johannes Kepler

  Miracle, Doe, Crowds

  Foreword in "De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus" by Johannes Kepler, 1601.

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• Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.

  Anthony Zee

  Needs, Fields, Quantum

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• Las deliciosas memorias de Clyde Phillip Wachsberger sobre el cuidado de los parterres de flores para compensar la soledad de la mediana edad y encontrar un romance inesperado en el camino son un dulce recordatorio de que, como él dice, "en un jardín puede pasar cualquier cosa". Con una prosa que equilibra la franqueza con la cortesía perfecta, nos encanta con el mensaje de que mantener un jardín con un compañero querido, la más efímera de todas las artes, puede proporcionarnos las alegrías y los placeres más duraderos.

  Philip Gambone

  Solitario, Dulce, Arte

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• We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers. But rather than be bound and defeated by our insignificance, we are bold because we exercise our will anyway, despite the ephemeral and delicate presence we have in this desert, on this planet, in this universe.

  Aron Ralston

  Exercise, Desert, Unyielding

  Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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