“I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.”
Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions, 2010
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“Inside every widow there's a spider that weaves it's webs in the corners of her heart.”
"Voices Within the Ark", ibid.
“Nature repairs her ravages, — repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor.”
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Context: Nature repairs her ravages, — repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor. The desolation wrought by that flood had left little visible trace on the face of the earth, five years after. The fifth autumn was rich in golden cornstacks, rising in thick clusters among the distant hedgerows; the wharves and warehouses on the Floss were busy again, with echoes of eager voices, with hopeful lading and unlading.
And every man and woman mentioned in this history was still living, except those whose end we know.
Pt. IV, ch. V
Jude the Obscure (1895)
L'École des cadavres (School for Corpses), Denoël 1942, p. 6
“It's better to prepare than to repair.”
Source: The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team
“To repair the irreparable ravages of time.”
Pour réparer des ans l'irréparable outrage.
Athalie, act II, scene V (1691).
Athalie (1691)
“If it can't be … reused, repaired … then it should be … redesigned or removed from production.”
Berkeley salutes folk singer Seeger http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_25071210/berkeley-salutes-folk-singer-seeger (6 February 2014)
“775. A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.”
Source: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 8, "Hawks"