• 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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1. definition
2. compressed
3. explain
4. thimble
5. entire
6. would

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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. by : Remy de Gourmont

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