“Experience is always seeking for special literary forms in which its various aspects can find their most adequate expression; and there are many of these aspects which are best rendered in a fragmentary fashion, because they are themselves fragments of experience, gleams and flashes of light, rather than the steady glow of a larger illumination.”

—  Logan Pearsall Smith

“English Aphorists,” pp. 102-103
Reperusals and Recollections (1936)

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