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«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...»
«Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Anger | Keywords: madness, momentary
«Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.»
«Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.»
«Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power»
«My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.»
«Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.»
«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.»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | About: Praise | Keywords: abstract, critic, effect, momentary, on his own, severe
«Beauty is momentary in the mind / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal. / The body dies; the body's beauty lives.»
«Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness»

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