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  1. Gregory Maguire _ A Lion Among Men

    Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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  2. Hermann Hesse _ Knulp

    If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a colder eye. I'd say to myself: You can look at it any time, it doesn't have to be today.
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  3. Annie Dillard _ The Maytrees

    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.
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  4. Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being

    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.
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  5. Vladimir Nabokov _ Pale Fire

    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.
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  6. Peter S. Beagle _ A Fine and Private Place

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

    He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea {that astoundingly obvious idea} that everything that exists {nation, thought, music} can also not exist.
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  8. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become important enough to control our lives. Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporary sojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowly in the infinite night of the cosmos."
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  9. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    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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