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Lasting a very short time.

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  • Be aware of the ephemeral nature of material things. Lose your attachment to them.
  • The ephemeral joys of childhood
  • And using the word ephemeral in its strict sense, Don Marquis is unquestionably the cleverest of our ephemeral philosophers.
  • Humanity 'eternal', Stateless 'ephemeral' - as 'dynamic' being 'worked out' form of Dialectic?
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