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Completeness Quotes (page 75)

Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? Gustave Flaubert
When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up. Julian Barnes
Clifford Geertz quote: "Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than..."
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. Clifford Geertz
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. Lawrence Durrell
In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom out of the hospital, where she was recovering from the plague, and have his bat, Ares, fly them back up to the laudry room of their appartment building in New York City. Ares, his bond, who saved his life numerous times and who had had nothing but suffering since he had met Gregor. He tried to imagine the parting. "Well, Ares, it's been great. I'm heading home now. I know by leaving I'm... Suzanne Collins
Charles R. Swindoll quote: "Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security..."
Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial. Charles R. Swindoll
In what resides the most characteristic Virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar; for no mortal being was ever more completely divested of the trammels of the personal and the particular, none ever practiced with more consummated success the divine art of impartiality Lytton Strachey
Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete. Naomi Wolf
E. M. Forster quote: "I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable..."
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. E. M. Forster
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything. Rainer Maria Rilke
I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore. George Carlin
In his memory there was a great tendency to downplay or completely forget their unlovable characteristics. [...] The thoughts that came wanted to be wholly good. Stephen King
Ann Patchett quote: "that it was so completely their own that it would have been..."
...that it was so completely their own that it would have been pointless to even try to speak of it to someone else. Ann Patchett
Jane Austen quote: "You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely,..."
You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy. Jane Austen
This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal suffrage has other advantages, but not that one. Alexis de Tocqueville

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