The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alt…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.22, Harvard University Press
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.22, Harvard University Press

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