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• With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.

  Virginia Woolf

  Past, Feet, Giving

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.110, Virginia Woolf

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• Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Heart, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Problem, Life Is, Solutions

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.187, Routledge

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• Like vanishing dew,
  a passing apparition
  or the sudden flash
  of lightning -- already gone --
  thus should one regard one's self.

  Ikkyu

  Self, Lightning, Dew

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• I'm not vanishing into thin air.

  Kate Bush

  Air, Thin Air

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, Rest Of Life, Distinction

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.209, Chosen Books

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• There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

  Marc Andreessen

  Class, Middle, Middle Class

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• I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?

  Cassandra Clare

  Who Cares, World, Care For You

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.626, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Song, Spring, Flower

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Secret, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind, for learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

  Rumi

  Eye, Love Is, Men

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• ...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Solitude, Looks

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• There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Past, Staying

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004). “The Complete Short Stories and Essays”, p.850, Simon and Schuster

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Wise

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• When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

  R. C. Sproul

  Pain, Memories, Soul

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• Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Generations, Opinion

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.305

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• Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

  Rumi

  World, Awareness, Scholar

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• As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, — we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Spring, Years, Paris

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1863). “Out-door Papers”, p.238

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• In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Television, Wraps, Screens

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.

  Matt Ridley

  Giving Up, Rain, Writing

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• Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Lines, Oblivion

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.83, Ivy Books

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• ... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on a wall. If you examine a life, as Socrates has been so tediously advising us to do for so many centuries, do you really examine a life, or do you examine the shadows it casts on other lives? Entity or relationships? Objective reality or the vanishing point of a multiple perspective exercise? Prism or the rainbows it refracts? And what if you're the wall? What if you never cast a shadow or rainbow of your own, but have only caught those cast by others?

  Wallace Stegner

  Life, Wall, Exercise

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.101, Penguin

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• Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Men, Eight

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• The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

  Paul Theroux

  Self, Improvement, Disappear

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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