Fragment Quotes
129 quotes by 118 authors
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By…
— Lucretius
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Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world…
— Rick Bass
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God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all…
— Seneca the Younger
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All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day…
— Thomas Huxley
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At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it…
— Georges Cuvier
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Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail;…
— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to…
— Victor Hugo
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Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.
— Jean Baudrillard
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The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.
— Brian Froud
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A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece
— Lyn Hejinian
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What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally…
— Wallace Stegner
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Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.
— Wallace Stegner
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A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating…
— Carl Jung
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event…
— Alain Badiou
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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the…
— Victor Hugo
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Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks.…
— Khalil Gibran
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all.…
— Quentin Crisp
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That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think that’s bullshit.…
— Chevy Stevens
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You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in…
— Libba Bray
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