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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.

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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Laurence Sterne I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Quentin Crisp Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Bill Viola My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Edgar Quinet The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Anais Nin 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
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Victor Hugo To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Andre Breton 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.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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