"Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be……" — Anais Nin

"Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman—like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally, in a far-reaching procession, shattering my mind into fragments, into quarter tones which no orchestral baton can ever make whole again."

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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal… — George Boole
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He… — Flannery O'Connor
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be… — Wendell Berry
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. — Edmund Burke
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time… — Walt Whitman
We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives. — Marianne Williamson
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or… — Virginia Woolf
For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions. — Paulo Coelho

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