{"quotes":[{"text":"...We took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["futility","ignorance","permanence"],"id":10997,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["infinite","lasting","legacy","meaning","money","permanence","purpose","value","wealth"],"id":22356,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Writing has the power of permanence.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["permanence","power","writing"],"id":34366,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"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 possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick's skull.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["achievements","anachronisms","death","permanence","revolution","sociology","technology","time","work"],"id":51435,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"Mr. Codro's destiny is Ptolemaic; in other words, based on fiction. Ptolemaic says it all; it means above all fixed and unchanging, that is to say different from real life which is by nature changing and temporary. It means: not according to natural truth, but according to man's desire and the pretense inspired by his fear of dying and his desire for permanence.","author":"Alberto Savinio","tags":["change","death","desire","destiny","fiction","future","permanence","ptolemy"],"id":56473,"author_id":"Alberto+Savinio"},{"text":"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives. ","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["libraries","permanence","preservation"],"id":76465,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity.","author":"Alice Hoffman","tags":["destruction","history","permanence"],"id":88579,"author_id":"Alice+Hoffman"},{"text":"Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.","author":"Timothy J. Keller","tags":["biblical-love","marriage","permanence","timothy-keller"],"id":88817,"author_id":"Timothy+J.+Keller"},{"text":"Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.","author":"Eric Micha'el Leventhal","tags":["awareness","buddhism","change","changelessness","eternity","impermanence","miracles","permanence","reality","time","zen"],"id":105516,"author_id":"Eric+Micha%27el+Leventhal"},{"text":"Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.","author":"Ahmed Mostafa","tags":["bitterness","bitterness","bittersweet","darkness","happiness","happiness","misery","momentary","permanence","transience","transiency","transient"],"id":121014,"author_id":"Ahmed+Mostafa"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}