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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

But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments. — Khadija Rupa

Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water. — Heraclitus

Yes," I said, staring at the way the sunshine glinted, quite prettily, on the broken fragments. Odd that something so wrecked could be so beautiful. — Harlem Dae

We're all spies. What do we have if not our rumors, our half-truths, our fragments taken out of context? — Joakim Zander

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces. — Eckhart Tolle

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself. — David Bowie

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments. — Stanislaw Lem

Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands. — Jonas Mekas

Movies are a world of Fragments. — Jean-Luc Godard

Love ... pain ... they're all just fragments of my dream! — Arina Tanemura

True Stories are fragments. Anything longer is a lie, a fabrication — Bilal Tanweer

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments. — Henry Ward Beecher

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. — Leo Tolstoy

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible. — Jacques Ellul

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. — Paul Klee

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing. — Leni Zumas

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. — Arthur Golden

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. — William Ellery Channing

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. — Eckhart Tolle

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny. — George Arnold

I to my friends, to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken. — Virginia Woolf

[The lives of others come together in fragments. A light shining off a separate story can illuminate what had remained dark. — Lauren Groff

I know this hasn't been a seamless narrative. I've had to shatter the story and string its fragments out along a death lasting decades. — Peter Watts

In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters. — Elena Ferrante

Seriously, how many times can a person break before the only things left are shattered fragments too small to piece back together? — Jay McLean

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of. — Elena Ferrante

Fragments of energy sizzled against my skin where he touched me, like sparks that shoot from a sparkler you played with as a kid. — Jodie Andrefski

Facts replaced understanding; and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom. — Will Durant

Live in fragments no longer, only connect. — E. M. Forster

However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments. — Gore Vidal

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. — Jonathan Lethem

I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use. — Laurie Graham

The ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments — P.G. Wodehouse

By confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past — William Hardy McNeill

Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place. — Michael Ondaatje

When two individuals fall in love it is as if two fragments of the universal consciousness have remembered that they are one. — Bill Harvey

I could think of any moment and see him weaved throughout it. It was as though his soul was interwoven with mine — M.R. Field

I am a writer of fragments. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Winter came early that year. Snow filled the gray December air like fragments of torn-up hope — Philip Kerr

There were times my heart broke into painful fragments then my soul perseveringly gathered an ocean of strength on my voyage towards renewal. — Angelica Hopes

it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess! — Arthur C. Clarke

God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis. — Sylvia Plath

Fragments are the only forms I trust. — Donald Barthelme

The statues carved here may be viewed as fragments of consciousness itself, or the residue of violent emotions — Linda Lappin

Order my life. I'm nothing without you: fragments of time, fragments of words, fragments of feelings. Make sense of me. Make me whole. — Greg Egan

... we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. — Italo Calvino

For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought — Soren Kierkegaard

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece — Lyn Hejinian

It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me. — John Green

There was an air of vague and unsettling paranoia, an undercurrent of rumors, snatched fragments of conversation anticipating future revolution. — Patti Smith

It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now. — Samuel R. Delany

I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments. — Junot Diaz

But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week. — Nick Hornby

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world. — Errol Flynn

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience. — Shomei Tomatsu

And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision. — Charlotte Bronte

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments. — Iain McGilchrist

She had seen the cindered fragments of her childhood life whirl into the sky as well. — Lois Lowry

To be cool is to believe. To stay cool is to have the sweet fragments of serenity rock your wig away. — Lord Buckley

Landscapes of fields and small clusters of buildings hurtle past outside like fragments of songs never sung in their entirety. — Glenn Haybittle

Watching the sea as it carried to shore millions of fragments of the sun and cast them, cooled and foaming, on the sand. — Dean Koontz

Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments. — Scott McCloud

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time. — Frank Zappa

Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows. — David Levithan

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. — Harold Innis

God's purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year. — Elizabeth George

And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure. — Kanza Javed

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. — William Gibson

To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. — Walter Benjamin

It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task. — Paul Gauguin

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. — Nadine Gordimer

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. — Khalil Gibran

My thoughts were a jumble.
I experienced the world in bewildering fragments and flashes. — Darren Shan

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

There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families — Carl Whitaker

These fragments I have shored against my ruins — T. S. Eliot

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone. — Sathya Sai Baba

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer — E. M. Forster

All really good writers use fragments. — Priscilla Long

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan. — Rabindranath Tagore

Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving. — Lewis B. Smedes

I think my heart has broken, but I have offered the fragments to God. — Philippa Gregory

Evil gains work their punishment. — Sophocles

Our fragments made us. — Margaret Atwood

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground. — Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla

There are just tiny fragments of pleasure and luxury in the world, and there is something unpatriotic about enjoying them. — John Knowles

During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word. — Shirley Jackson

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life. — Niki De St. Phalle

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures. — Henri Frederic Amiel

So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too. — Rachel Cusk

A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our comprehension. — Tom Brown Jr.

You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics — Jeri Massi

New things had to be made out of fragments. — Kurt Schwitters

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system. — James Small

History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included. — Walter Benjamin

Tis better not to be than to vilely live."
"Greedy of gain is every barbarous tribe. — Sophocles