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This world's a bubble. — Sir Francis Bacon

One thing is certain and the rest is lies The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. — Omar Khayyam

Everything put together is made to fall apart. — Jeffrey Fry

We only pass everything by like a transposition of air. — Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies

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I thought that I could keep it—the light on the running tide,
how your eyes give you away no matter what you hide.
I thought that I could hold it—the forest along the sand,
your neck bones like pearls underneath my hand.
But time's school has taught me how petals brown and die.
There's no saving pleasure.
Don't try. Don't try. — Louise Hawes The Language of...

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man. — W. Somerset Maugham

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part. — John Green Paper Towns

the necessary, impossible goodbye that had suddenly, in slow motion, arrived — Laurie Halse Anderson Shout

Everything solid for a time, and then the sun comes up one morning and the world begins to melt. — Paul Auster 4 3 2 1

The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but what we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock. — Annie Dillard The Maytrees

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.

A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime andInfinite aftertime: above your headThey close like giant wings, and you are dead.

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?

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