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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one… — Edgar Quinet
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of… — Hartley Coleridge
When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative… — Jeffrey Kluger
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on… — Anais Nin
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does… — Pope Paul VI
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of… — Laurence Sterne
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy… — Charles Dickens
Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private… — Pablo Neruda
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true… — J.R.R. Tolkien
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your… — Virginia Woolf
That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to… — Tom Robbins
It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried… — Arundhati Roy
hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring me here, with… — Louisa May Alcott
The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. — Gustave Flaubert
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere,… — Khalil Gibran
the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy — E E Cummings
Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come… — Muriel Barbery
Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of… — Steven Hall
I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away,… — Jan Karon
Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of… — Fernando Pessoa
It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating… — Arundhati Roy
Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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