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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. -- V. S. Naipaul
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. -- Edgar Allan Poe
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts. -- Richard Owen
In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge. -- Edmund Phelps
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes. -- E. Stanley Jones
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Consider incompleteness as a verb. -- Anne Carson
This incompleteness is all we have. -- Charles Bukowski
The true genius shudders at incompleteness. -- Edgar Allan Poe
And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him. -- Oswald Chambers
Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment. -- Thomas Merton
Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply. -- Sena Jeter Naslund
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
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity. -- Alfred Adler
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something. -- Orson Scott Card
So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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