#incomplete

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#been #begin #book #each #exists

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#everywhere #i #i think #incomplete #nature

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#golden rule #image #incomplete #leave #oneself

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#fragmentary #god #incomplete #ourselves #understand

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 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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But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts. ↗

— Richard Owen

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The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact. ↗

— John Tyndall

#brightest #counterparts #fact #flashes #incomplete

we used to play around with our implicitly, we are too enjoying a game of looking and interpreting our self, until there is one thing that may be forgotten: is happy incomplete, if we do not explicitly express it? ↗

— Aditia Rinaldi

#happiness #implicitly #incomplete #love #we

You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website. ↗

— Dave Davies

#always #because #different #i #i do