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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.»
«Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
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Pity
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addictive, destructive, momentary, narcotic, narcotics, pity, self-pity, separates, Separate reality, The Victim, victim
«Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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Sex
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damnable, expense, momentary, position, ridiculous, The Pleasure
«Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power»
Author: Phyllis Rose
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Love
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in terms of, momentary, prolonged, refusal, Refusals, terms
«My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.»
Author: Roman Polanski
(Actor, Film Director)
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Discipline
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disciplined, films, instincts, momentary
«Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
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Children
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As of, damnable, momentary, posture, postures, posturing, procreation
«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)
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Praise
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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.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
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Beauty
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fitful, in the flesh, momentary, portal, portals, tracing
«Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Drinking
| Keywords:
drunkenness, momentary, unhappiness
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