Bubble
A bubble is a spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
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Quotes
[edit]- The wind blows out, the bubble dies;
The spring entomb'd in autumn lies;
The dew dries up; the star is shot;
The flight is past—and man forgot.- Francis Beaumont, "On the Life of Man" (1828)
- Like bubbles on the sea of matter born.
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man § 3.19
- In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.
- Leo Tolstoy, Levin in Anna Karenina, C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 8, Chapter 9, p. 729
