Both Uses of
transitory
in
Siddhartha
- How should he not know love, he, who has discovered all elements of human existence in their transitoriness,
Chpt 12 *transitoriness = shortness
- …Agni—he saw all of these figures and faces in a thousand relationships with one another, each one helping the other, loving it, hating it, destroying it, giving re-birth to it, each one was a will to die, a passionately painful confession of transitoriness, and yet none of them died, each one only transformed, was always re-born, received evermore a new face, without any time having passed between the one and the other face—and all of these figures and faces rested, flowed, generated…†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(transitory) lasting a short time