#vanish

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#fires #his #impossibilities #made #man

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#approaching #arriving #departing #ever #farther

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#established #firmly #francis #i #monarchy

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#corner #day #down #eye #her

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#had #how #i #i do #never

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family. ↗

— Lance Morrow

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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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