#fragment

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 a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ↗

— Anais Nin

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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 not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#considered #conveyor #coordinated #effective #fast

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fragments #ideas #live #longer #mind

I am a writer of fragments. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#fragments #i #i am #writer

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 as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#best #broken #fragments #glue #good

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#fragments #intimate-notes #letters #marilyn-monroe #poems

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

#fragments #granted #love #stronger #symmetry

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#director #film #fragments #moments #same

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#day #every #every day #fact #fragmented