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«Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever»
Author: Anita Loos
(Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Kissing
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bracelet, diamond, kissing, lasts, sapphire, sapphires
«The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.»
«Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles.»
«No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.»
«The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.»
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Photographer)
| About:
Creativity
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box, brief, camera, fleeting, give and take, instant, lasts, lightning, prey, preyed, preying, preys, trap
«Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.»
«Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.»
Author: Lance Armstrong
(Cyclist)
| About:
Pain
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eventually, hour, however, lasts, minute, quit, something else, subside, subsides, subsiding, temporary, year
«Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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at the bottom, closely, enwrapped, Everything or Nothing, gloom, lasts, more or less, mourning, rivers, thoughtful
«I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
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countryside, immediately, lasts, lightning, like thunder, roamed, roaming, roams, searching, The Eye, thunder, thundered, thundering, visible
«Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.»
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