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Incompleteness Quotes

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

Edgar Allan Poe
Genius, Tension, Incompleteness
Edgar Allan Poe (1849). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.509

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Greatness, Thinking, Incompleteness
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.254

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

V. S. Naipaul
Biographies, Autobiography, Incompleteness
V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

This incompleteness is all we have.

Charles Bukowski
Incompleteness

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

Leonardo da Vinci
May, Whole, Incompleteness
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

Anne Carson
Verbs, Incompleteness
Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.17, Vintage

By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.

Manohla Dargis
Perfect, Claims, Incompleteness

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