“ Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we… Alain de Botton
“ Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence. Eric Micha'el Leventhal
“ I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us. Liz Newman
“ What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any pos… Alain de Botton
“ I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its way mattered, that working hard mattered, that feeling things mattered, t… Susan Orlean
“ Stone and sea are deep in lifeTwo unalterable symbols of the worldPermanence at restAnd permanence in motionParticipants in the power that remains Stephen R. Donaldson
