#completeness

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. ↗

— David Starr Jordan

#depends #life #lived #long #short

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. ↗

— Beverly Sills

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When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

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There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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