Best Fragments Proverbs
333 Fragments quotes by 278 unique authors
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good…
— Margaret Mitchell
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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
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I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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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
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Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee,…
— Paul Rand
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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
— Derek Walcott
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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
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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
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It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home.…
— Thomas Pynchon
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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
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and…
— Wendell Berry
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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
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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
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He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
— Arthur Golden
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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must…
— Henry Miller
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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
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no…
— E. M. Forster
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For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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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
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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
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