#momentary

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

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#beside #childhood #conjure #fleeting #lake

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. ↗

— Felix Adler

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#been #commercial #commercial world #craving #desire

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ↗

— John Keats

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#beauty #blame #critic #effect #him