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«Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.»
«Just as the would-be debutante will fret and fuss over every detail till all is perfect, so will the fastidious feline patiently toil until every whiskertip is in place.»
«I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.»
«Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
detail, fritter, fritters, fritter away
«Nobody has worked harder at inactivity with such a force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
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Character
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conscientious, detail, inactivity, unremitting
«O Krishna, I have heard from You in detail about the origin and dissolution of beings, and Your imperishable glory.»
«Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy the book.»
«I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to save myself the trouble of mentioning the points in detail, I could do without you altogether»
«One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
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detail, for one, opposite, painting, particular, peach, peaches
«Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail.»
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