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Quotes About Interstices

This is where we work, in the interstices of ignorance, the land of contradiction and silence, planning to convince you with the seemingly known, to resolve - or make usefully vivid - the contradiction, and to make the silence eloquent.
~ Julian Barnes
They worked in the interstices left by the big Christian houses and dealt more directly in markets than the Morgans did.
~ Ron Chernow
Los clasificadores de cosas, que son aquellos hombres de ciencia cuya ciencia consiste sólo en clasificar, ignoran, en general, que lo clasificable es infinito y por lo tanto no se puede clasificar. Pero en lo que consiste mi pasmo es en que ignoren la existencia de clasificables desconocidos, cosas del alma y de la conciencia que se encuentran en los intersticios del conocimiento.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [....] Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.
~ Samuel Johnson
I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Noi eravamo la gente di cui non si parlava nei giornali. Vivevamo nei vuoti spazi bianchi ai margini dei fogli e questo ci dava più libertà. Vivevamo tra gli interstizi di storie altrui.
~ Margaret Atwood
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
~ George Santayana
A sociedade de consumo é programada do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.
~ Gilles Lipovetsky
Anglo society moved forward not as a uniform front against Native Americans but more fluidly, as if it were poured into the interstices separating Indian nations and communities.
~ Greg Grandin
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
~ Orson Scott Card
When everything is blocked off,' I was told by a dear friend who lives in Erfurt, "one must try to live in the interstices.' Apparently, the Christians of the Apocalypse, though they did not bear the sign of the beast, had discovered or created such spaces. From islands like these, true culture, Christian culture, may spread across the earth. Many people are athirst for it.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
drilled directly down over the meteorite. Then I drilled multiple cores only a few yards on either side. You can't get any closer." "Just asking." "The point is moot," Norah said. "Brine interstices occur only in seasonal
~ Dan Brown
Like the Dichotomy's VIR, surds represent gaps or holes in the N.L., interstices through which the limitless chaos of (infinity) could enter and mess with the tidiness of Attic math.
~ David Foster Wallace
One of the many pleasures of 'Versailles' is the way in which it seems to emanate not only from the vexed inner being of Marie Antoinette but from the interstices between what we imagine of her and what she was.
~ Stacey D'Erasmo
Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices whose void for ever craves fresh food.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley