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Famous quotes containing the words compressed, plain and/or text:

“The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.... A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

“It is plain that the reviewers, both here and abroad, do not know how to dispose of this man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)