Famous quotes containing the words evanescent and/or modes:
“The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly’s bloom.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Sight and all the other senses are only modes of touch.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
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