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“My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.”

Book Home Values Asks Advice Return Passing Passings Ask Me Lasting Trends Shelves Pillow Ephemeral

Author:Gae Aulenti

“After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.”

Age Earth Return Evolution Passing Passings Nightmare Butterfly Incapable Nero

Book:The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

“The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.”

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Book:A Casual Commentary

Source: A Casual Commentary

“Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.”

May Littles Light Stars Sleep Darkness Sky Return Passing Passings Burning Poison Superstitions Foul Passing Away Straws Racks Draught Chalice Incubus Shunning

Book:The Carlyle Anthology

Source: The Carlyle Anthology

“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.”

Mind Persons Book Hands Desire Taken Return Down And Library Passing Passings Realising Volume Strict Shelves Heed

Book:The Journal of a Disappointed Man

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.”

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Book:Miscellanea Curiosa: Being a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena in Nature, Accounted for by the Greatest Philosophers of this Age : Together with Several Discourses Read Before the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Physical and Mathematical Knowledge

Source: Miscellanea Curiosa: Being a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena in Nature, Accounted for by the Greatest Philosophers of this Age : Together with Several Discourses Read Before the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Physical and Mathematical Knowledge

“Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect.”

Humans Shows Care Passion Human Beings Kindness Nice Return Deserve Depth Passing Passings Being Nice Recognizing Courteous Expect Nothing

Author:Colin Powell

“The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.”

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Book:Atonement

Source: Atonement

“I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.”