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Letter "T" » transient
«Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.»
Author: Konstantin Stanislavsky
(Actor)
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Success
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acquisition, acquisitions, evanescent, poignant, shading, shadings, subtleties, transient
«To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.»
Author: Arnold Bennett
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brain dead, flash, grasps, insight, moment of truth, previously, serves, transient
«Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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contingent, contingent on, fleeting, immovable, modernity, One half, transient
«Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
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arises, aspect, individualize, individualized, individualizes, individualizing, owing, phenomenal, rope, snake, transient
«The true end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole.»
«When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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abnormal, continuously, delusive, excited, exhausting, insane, required, swear, transient, violent, violent death
«Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal»
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