{"quotes":[{"text":"A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ('When is Art?').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["art","biased","breathing","come-to-life","concept","consent-to","dispel","disturbing","feel","forsaken","fragments","ignored","in-the-end","nasty","perceptions","philosophy","piece-of-art","raise-questions","recognize","reconcile","remember","sometimes","start","talk-to"],"id":24141,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings, outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses strongly present even to the one who's lived it- maybe especially to the one who's lived it. I didn't seek to find her, wandered instead within and among her fragments of language-notebooks, drafts, journals, fictions, letters, essays, and found there whole worlds like spinning planets, lived in their cold light and burning light, wondering where I was, where they might take me. Curious, I heard a monster's voice and followed-.","author":"Laurie Sheck","tags":["a-monster-s-notes","fragments","laurie-sheck","literature"],"id":25735,"author_id":"Laurie+Sheck"},{"text":"It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["and-his","appears","based","been","church","comprehensive","fragments","god","has","it","kingdom","mainly","modern","paradigm","rather","some","than","that","totality","truth","understanding"],"id":35135,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Walking into my room, I turned and caught his gaze, “But you’re good at walking away, so you obviously haven’t changed.” Pointing to my chin, I indicated, “Except this,” meaning his goatee, “this is new, but you being an asshole, yep- still there. Oh well.” I took a step back and flicked the door, slamming it. -Trice.","author":"M.R. Field","tags":["alex","anger","boy-next-door","fragments","house-mates","love","regret","room-mates","trice"],"id":39503,"author_id":"M.R.+Field"},{"text":"Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.","author":"Marilyn Monroe","tags":["confidence","fragments","intimate-notes","letters","marilyn-monroe","poems"],"id":70194,"author_id":"Marilyn+Monroe"},{"text":"Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["contemplation","fragments","great","great-man","idea","inspirational","little-things","michael-bassey-johnson","muse","musing","musings","reflection","retrospection","talent","thinking","thoughts","useless","wisdom"],"id":82480,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Evil gains work their punishment.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["evil","fragments","punishment","sophocles"],"id":147183,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined morphological expectations. It is still capable of perceiving message-totalities and autonomous thing-signals when no morphologically intact figures are left - indeed, precisely then. The sense for perfection withdraws from the forms of nature - probably because nature itself is in the process of losing its ontological authority. The popularization of photography also increasingly devalues the standard views of things. As the first edition of the visible, nature comes into discredit. It can no longer assert its authority as the sender of binding messages - for reasons that ultimately come from its disenchantment through being scientifically explored and technically outdone. After this shift, 'being perfect' takes on an altered meaning: it means having something to say that is more meaningful than the chatter of conventional totalities. Now the torsos and their ilk have their turn: the hour of those forms that do not remind us of anything has come. Fragments, cripples and hybrids formulate something that cannot be conveyed by the common whole forms and happy integrities; intensity beats standard perfection.","author":"Peter Sloterdijk","tags":["ity","cripples","fragments","hybrids","intensity","modernity","nature","perfect","perfection","photography","poetry","rilke","science","technique","thing-poem"],"id":311979,"author_id":"Peter+Sloterdijk"},{"text":"Seriously, how many times can a person break before the only things left are shattered fragments too small to piece back together?","author":"Jay McLean","tags":["broken","brokenness","fragments","shattered"],"id":314873,"author_id":"Jay+McLean"},{"text":"The Big Dream shattered splinters into a thousand little dreams.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["dreams","fragments"],"id":411116,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}