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Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

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Eliphas Levi
Age: 65 †
Born: 1810
Born: January 1
Died: 1875
Died: January 1
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Non-Fiction Writer
Occultist
Philosopher
Paris
France
Eliphas Lévi
Alphonse Louis
Alphonse Louis Constant
Abbé Constant
Abbe Constant
Alphonse Constant
Éliphas Lévi
Away
Marvelous
Helen
Beautiful
Passings
Fugitive
Become
Dust
Reflections
Everything
Passing
Beauties
Rapidity
Nothing
Reflection
Skull
Troy
Life
Short
Skulls
Toothless
Eternal
Handful
Alters
Beauty
Passes
Melts

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