Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.
Georgia O'KeeffeWhen I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: life happiness sadness old feelings details
General theories are everywhere condemned; the doctrine of the Rights of Man is dismissed with the doctrine of the Fall of Man. Atheism itself is too theological for us to-day. Revolution itself is too much of a system; liberty itself is too much of a restraint. We will have no generalizations. Mr. Bernard Shaw has put the view in a perfect epigram: 'The golden rule is that there is no golden rule.' We are more and more to discuss details in art, politics, literature. A man's opinion on tramcars matters; his opinion on Botticelli matters; his opinion on all things does not matter. He may turn over and explore a million objects, but he must not find that strange object, the universe; for if he does he will have a religion, and be lost. Everything matters--except everything.
G.K. ChestertonTags: modernism generalizations details postmodernity
You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.
Lynn SheeneTags: fashion elegance details upper-class
To our Creator, a small detail is a big deal.
Todd StockerTags: life love god creator details
Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.
Dillon BurroughsTags: providence moments sacred details
Fearful leaders love to stay in the morass of insignificant details. Because the details are usually unimportant, it is difficult to make a mistake of consequence. Of course, it's impossible to do anything of consequence when your focus is on those things that really don't make a difference.
Thom S. RainerTags: leadership details
Home is the school where we learn that love shows itself in the details.
Andi AshworthI'm a typical American, half of me is dying to give myself away and the other half is continually rebelling.
David Foster WallaceTags: interviews details david-foster-wallace david-streitfeld
Puedo deleitarme con el paladeo de las partes que han constituido un momento.
Antonio AlatorreTags: perception details
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