#ephemeral

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair. ↗

— Judith Light

#discovered #ephemeral #function #hair #how

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that. ↗

— John Malkovich

#i #i love #love #theater

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is. ↗

— Nate Silver

#ephemeral #how #people #still #success

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#construct #enduring #ephemeral #everything #flashes

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#art #away #elemental #ephemeral #forbidden

And we all nodded at him: the man of finance, the man of accounts, the man of law, we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces, lined, wrinkled; our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#love

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #creativity #dangerous #ephemeral #fashion-designer

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow. ↗

— Charles Durning

#anyhow #bring #closet #ephemeral #gone