#dissolve

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away. ↗

— William Watson

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If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore? ↗

— Don Young

#business #dissolve #forest #going #harvesting

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel. ↗

— Bohumil Hrabal

#blood-vessels #dissolve #infusion #reading #sentences

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. ↗

— John Updike

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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. ↗

— Derek Walcott

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Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. ↗

— Gunther Grass

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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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