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. - Remy de Gourmont

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Remy de Gourmont: "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."

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Blade	Complex	Compressed	Definition
Each	Entire	Explain	Flour
Human	Into	Mind	Other
Pieces	Sack	Straw	Take
Tangled	Thimble	Things	Universe

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