Famous quotes containing the words diminished and/or scale:
“The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)