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  • To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

  • Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and vanishing palace that is this ordinary world and ordinary life. Jungian archetype would say the house is a figure for the experienced, experiencing self.

    "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.
  • Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

    Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.161, Oxford University Press
  • The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

    Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I remembered that I'm -- that I'm --" "Already dead," said Ron hopefully. Myrtle gave a tragic sob, rose up in the air, turned over, and dived headfirst into the toilet, splashing water all over them and vanishing from sight, although from the direction of her muffled sobs, she had come to rest somewhere in the U-bend.

    Sight   Air   Water  
  • A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.

    Teaching   Mean   Loss  
  • ... 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?

    Life   Wall   Exercise  
    Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.101, Penguin
  • Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

    Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.280, Princeton University Press
  • Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

  • Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

  • After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

    Mary Brave Bird (2014). “Ohitika Woman”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

    Smile   Dream   Baby  
    Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
  • There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.

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

    Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.209, Chosen Books
  • Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.

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

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

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.187, Routledge
  • I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

    Dog   Thinking   Nuts  
    John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin
  • The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.

    Giving Up   Wall   Artist  
    "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.
  • I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

  • 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.

    Memories   Heart   Two  
    Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.225, Simon and Schuster
  • I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

    Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
  • Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.

    Self   Lightning   Dew  
  • PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

    Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

    Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours.

    Music   Men   Air  
  • 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 (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.626, Simon and Schuster
  • Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.

    Loss   Animal   Years  
  • In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

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

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