Quotes with flour

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• The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

  ― Remy de Gourmont
  French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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• Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

  ― Henri-Frédéric Amiel
  Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• spontaneity
• compressed
• germinates
• thimble
• springs
• ground

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