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«People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.»
«Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things -- the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.»
«Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's notto be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we areto the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.»
Author: Jerry Seinfeld
(Actor, Comedian)
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Birthday
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birthday cake, cake, candles, emerge, flicker, flickering, flickers, gone by, self-will, self-willed
«Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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Memory
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gone by, performs, preserving, storing, wonders
«In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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absolve, absolved, extreme unction, foolishness, gone by, unction
«The passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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