“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
Fall 1943
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: Journals Of Anais Nin Volume 3
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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes
"The Student Life" in The Medical News (30 September 1905).
“A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…”
As quoted in a review of The Fractal Geometry of Nature by J. W. Cannon in The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 91, No. 9 (November 1984), p. 594
“For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town.”
Boule de Suif (1880)
Context: For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere disorganized bands, not disciplined forces. The men wore long, dirty beards and tattered uniforms; they advanced in listless fashion, without a flag, without a leader. All seemed exhausted, worn out, incapable of thought or resolve, marching onward merely by force of habit, and dropping to the ground with fatigue the moment they halted.
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
Source: Initiation Into Hermetics (1956), p. 31.
National Review, 16 January 1962 http://books.google.com/books?id=TjkQAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+superstition+that+the+hounds+of+truth+will+rout+the+vermin+of+error+seems+like+a+fragment+of+Victorian+lace+quaint+but+too+brittle+to+be+lifted+out+of+the+showcase%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage
Manchester Guardian
